How to Customize Your Mac Using the Terminal

Open Terminal and type in ' emacs '., Try typing in snake.

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Open Terminal and type in ' emacs '.

    Press return.

    After that, a screen with a bunch of instructions should pop up.

    Instead, click ESC, then type in ' x '. , A video game should show up! Here are come more functions/games: #*5x5
    - fill in all the squares animate
    - make text dance blackbox
    - find objects by firing beams into a black box Decipher Mode
    - help for cracking a simple alphabetic substitution cipher Dissociated Press – fun with gibberish Emacs Doctor
    - psychological help from a Rogerian analyst, for when it’s all getting too much for you dunnet
    - text-mode dungeon adventure game gomoku
    - five-in-a-row against the computer Hanoi
    - computer solving the towers of Hanoi game landmark
    - neural net robot that learns landmarks; in Emacs 24 it is invoked with landmark; in previous version it is invoked with lM life
    - John Conway’s game of life meese
    - stop impressionable young minds of America from seeing the etc/sex.6 man page Morse Code
    - convert text to and from morse code mpuz
    - multiplication puzzle (hidden digits) pong
    - two-player computerized ping-pong snake
    - guide a snake around the screen, eat to grow solitaire
    - balls on an 8x8 cross shaped grid studlify-region
    - convert text to study caps Tetris Mode
    - arrange falling blocks yow
    - random Zippy quote Zone Mode
    - crazy screen effects when idle
  2. Step 2: Try typing in snake.

Detailed Guide

Press return.

After that, a screen with a bunch of instructions should pop up.

Instead, click ESC, then type in ' x '. , A video game should show up! Here are come more functions/games: #*5x5
- fill in all the squares animate
- make text dance blackbox
- find objects by firing beams into a black box Decipher Mode
- help for cracking a simple alphabetic substitution cipher Dissociated Press – fun with gibberish Emacs Doctor
- psychological help from a Rogerian analyst, for when it’s all getting too much for you dunnet
- text-mode dungeon adventure game gomoku
- five-in-a-row against the computer Hanoi
- computer solving the towers of Hanoi game landmark
- neural net robot that learns landmarks; in Emacs 24 it is invoked with landmark; in previous version it is invoked with lM life
- John Conway’s game of life meese
- stop impressionable young minds of America from seeing the etc/sex.6 man page Morse Code
- convert text to and from morse code mpuz
- multiplication puzzle (hidden digits) pong
- two-player computerized ping-pong snake
- guide a snake around the screen, eat to grow solitaire
- balls on an 8x8 cross shaped grid studlify-region
- convert text to study caps Tetris Mode
- arrange falling blocks yow
- random Zippy quote Zone Mode
- crazy screen effects when idle

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