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Contents of tape:

To Do:

- make it easier to quit Emacs

- change the temporary directory names we've been using - bin sounds like its for unwanted files, dev sounds like its for development, etc needs a better name. Its silly





I like the ambiguity of bin and dev. Unix is full of such puns: cat, man, more/less, etc.

Etc is strange, yeah.


I've personally seen someone ask a question, "My cat keeps jumping on my keyboard. Is there anything I can do to make sure she doesn't accidentally type a valid Unix command while I'm AFK?" And the answer was, "When you leave the keyboard, type "cat" and press Enter. That will put Unix in cat mode, where it will be protected from cats typing random characters." :-) (That's not verbatim, it's from vague memory of something I saw a couple years ago).



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