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Whitespace Oddity
WHITESPACE ODDITY
by Paul Phillips, in eternal admiration of David Bowie, RIP
Bound Ctrl to Major mode
Bound Ctrl to Major mode
Read inputrc and set extdebug on
Bound Ctrl to Major mode (Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six)
Connecting readline, options on (Five, Four, Three)
Check the syntax, may terminfo be with you (Two, One, Exec)
This is Bound Ctrl to Major mode
You really must upgrade
both shell completion and keyboard firmware
Now it's time to leave the console if you dare
"This is Major mode to Bound Ctrl
I'm starting ssh
And my echo's in a most peculiar way
And the glyphs look very different today
For here
Am I tapping on a keyboard
Far beneath the world
Now my screen is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand lines
my scrollbar's very still
And I think the shell must know where core dumps go
Tell Fallout I love it very much - it knows
Bound Ctrl to Major mode
Your pipeline's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major mode?
Can you hear me, Major mode?
Can you hear me, Major mode?
Can you "Here am I hiding in the basement
Safe in my cocoon
Now my screen is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
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