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Play pong in emacs UNIX
Another useless, if entertaining, program is hidden within emacs. While in the Terminal, type emacs, then after emacs loads type esc-x pong. The left and right arrow keys control the left paddle, up and down control the right If you're new to emacs, Control-X Control-C will quit the program.
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Can't see it from my house.
Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Sep 26, '02 10:35:11AM

This doesn't seem to be in 10.1.5? The emacs is 20.7.1.

Maybe this just another darned benefit of owning 10.2...



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Jag emacs...
Authored by: robg on Sep 26, '02 11:16:50AM

GNU Emacs 21.1.1.

-rob.



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Can't see it from my house.
Authored by: drewb2b on Sep 26, '02 01:39:54PM

I have 10.2 and it didn't work for me either. I always use pico as my text editor in the terminal, so maybe I'm just missing something here.

Oh well.



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Works for me
Authored by: vertigo on Sep 26, '02 02:37:43PM

I'm using 10.2.1 and it works as advertised. Kinda cool.


~vert



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