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Indeed so! Because it's art, not engineering. The engineering approach would require a recognizably distinct command, eliminating the possibility of such a pun.

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I used to have an alias em=mg, because mg(1) is a small Emacs, so "em" seemed like a fun name for a command.

Until one day I made that typo.

I'm a fan of installing sl(1), the terminal steam locomotive. I mistype it every couple months and it always gives me a laugh.

https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

In the same spirit there's gti https://r-wos.org/hacks/gti

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