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1 ;;; bruce.el --- bruce phrase utility for overloading the Communications -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
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2 ;;; Decency Act snoops, if any.
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4 ;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
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5 ;; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6
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7 ;; Maintainer: FSF
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8 ;; Keywords: games
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9 ;; Created: Jan 1997
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11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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13 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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14 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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15 ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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16 ;; (at your option) any later version.
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17
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18 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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19 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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20 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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21 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
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22
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23 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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24 ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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25
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26 ;;; Commentary:
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27
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28 ;; This program was written to protest the miss-named "Communications
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29 ;; Decency Act of 1996. This Act bans "indecent speech", whatever that is,
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30 ;; from the Internet. For more on the CDA, see Richard Stallman's essay on
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31 ;; censorship, included in the etc directory of emacs distributions 19.34
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32 ;; and up. See also http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html.
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33
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34 ;; For many years, emacs has included a program called Spook. This program
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35 ;; adds a series of "keywords" to email just before it goes out. On the
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36 ;; theory that the NSA monitors people's email, the keywords would be
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37 ;; picked up by the NSA's snoop computers, causing them to waste time
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38 ;; reading your meeting schedule notices or other email boring to everyone
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39 ;; but you and (you hope) the recipient. See below (I left in the original
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40 ;; writeup when I made this conversion), or the emacs documentation at
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41 ;; ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-manual*.
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42
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43 ;; Bruce is a direct copy of spook, with the word "spook" replaced with
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44 ;; the word "bruce". Thanks to "esr", whoever he, she or it may be, this
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45 ;; conversion was an extremely easy piece of editing, suitable for a first
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46 ;; essay at elisp programming.
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47
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48 ;; You may think of the name as having been derived from a certain Monty
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49 ;; Python routine. Or from Lenny Bruce, who opposed censorship in his own
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50 ;; inimitable way. Bruce does exactly what Spook does: it throws keywords
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51 ;; into your email messages or other documents.
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52
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53 ;; However, in order to comply with the CDA as interpreted by Richard
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54 ;; Stallman (see the essay on censorship), bruce is distributed without a
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55 ;; data file from which to select words at random. Sorry about that. I
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56 ;; believe the average user will be able to come up with a few words on
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57 ;; his or her own. If that is a problem, feel free to ask any American
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58 ;; teenager, preferably one who attends a government school. Failing
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59 ;; that, you might write to Mr. Clinton or Ms Reno or their successors and
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60 ;; ask them for suggestions. Think of it as a public spirited act: the
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61 ;; time they spend answering you is time not spent persecuting someone
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62 ;; else. However, do ask them to respond by snail mail, where their
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63 ;; suggestions would be legal.
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64
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65 ;; To build the data file, just start a file called bruce.lines in the etc
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66 ;; directory of your emacs distribution. Note that each phrase or word has
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67 ;; to be followed by an ascii 0, control-@. See the file spook.lines in
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68 ;; the etc directory for an example. In emacs, use c-q c-@ to insert the
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69 ;; ascii 0s.
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70
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71 ;; Once you have edited up a data file, you have to tell emacs how to find
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72 ;; the program bruce. Add the following two lines to your .emacs file. Be
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73 ;; sure to uncomment the second line.
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74
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75 ;; for bruce mode
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76 ;; (autoload 'bruce "bruce" "Use the Bruce program to protest the CDA" t)
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77
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78 ;; Shut down emacs and fire it up again. Then "M-x bruce" should put some
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79 ;; shocking words in the current buffer.
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80
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81
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82 ;; Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually use this program
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83 ;; to add "illegal" words to your email, or any other purpose. First, you
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84 ;; don't really need a program to do it, and second, it would be illegal
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85 ;; for me to suggest or advise that you actually break the law. This
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86 ;; program was written as a demonstration only, and as an act of political
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87 ;; protest and free expression protected by the First Amendment, or
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88 ;; whatever is left of it.
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89
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90
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91 ;; We now return to the original writeup for spook:
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92
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93 ;; Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu> didn't write the
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94 ;; program spook, from which this was adapted, and even if he did, he
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95 ;; really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
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96 ;;
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97 ;; To use this:
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98 ;; Just before sending mail, do M-x spook.
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99 ;; A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help
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100 ;; give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated
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101 ;; keyword scanners. Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler!
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102
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103 ;;; Code:
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104
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105 (require 'cookie1)
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106
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107 ; Variables
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108 (defgroup bruce nil
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109 "Insert phrases selected at random from a file into a buffer."
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110 :prefix "bruce-"
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111 :group 'games)
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113 (defcustom bruce-phrases-file "~/bruce.lines"
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114 "Keep your favourite phrases here."
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115 :type 'file
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116 :group 'bruce)
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117
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118 (defcustom bruce-phrase-default-count 15
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119 "Default number of phrases to insert."
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120 :type 'integer
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121 :group 'bruce)
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122
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123 ;;;###autoload
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124 (defun bruce ()
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125 "Adds that special touch of class to your outgoing mail."
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126 (interactive)
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127 (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file)
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128 (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file))
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129 (cookie-insert bruce-phrases-file
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130 bruce-phrase-default-count
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131 "Checking authorization..."
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132 "Checking authorization...Approved"))
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133
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134 ;;;###autoload
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135 (defun snarf-bruces ()
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136 "Return a vector containing the lines from `bruce-phrases-file'."
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137 (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file)
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138 (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file))
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139 (cookie-snarf bruce-phrases-file
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140 "Checking authorization..."
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141 "Checking authorization...Approved"))
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142
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143 ;; Note: the implementation that used to take up most of this file has been
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144 ;; cleaned up, generalized, gratuitously broken by esr, and now resides in
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145 ;; cookie1.el.
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146
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147 (provide 'bruce)
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148
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149 ;; arch-tag: b83ded51-4ccb-41ef-8bd6-3b521e81dd9b
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150 ;;; bruce.el ends here
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