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Comment by LordShredda | Hacker News Reader

Actually funny video, shows how absurd emacs can get. Although you don't know, someone might earn a living typing blimpy or a similar thing

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The rogue blimpy optimizing AI will one day enslave us all into typing blimpy. If you know how to do it the Correct Way in Emacs, you'll get to live a little longer before your matter is harvested for the blimpy typing nanobots.

limpy b limpy b limpy b

blimpy?

I had to look it up myself and I'm guessing it's this blimpy[0].

But I haven't watched to video to confirm. YMMV.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/blimpy/

It's this:

https://github.com/progfolio/blimpy

I dont get it... does blimpy equate to some emacs commands or something where you cant type it in emacs' equivalent of insert mode?

Please see https://github.com/progfolio/blimpy#usage

this answers nothing

You valiantly strove for the unattainable. Take solace in the fact that nobody took it from you, it just wasn't there to begin with.

That's exactly what a vim user would say.

There’s nothing to answer.

>this answers nothing

Then listen to the music, not the song.

limpy b

No, I think the word was just chosen because it sounds kind of funny. The crux of the video is making fun of how simultaneously annoyingly fidgety and powerful emacs packages can be.

The warnings never mean anything

>B(000000)B

That's a blimpy sailing right over your head.

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