emacs-hacker-typer

A customizable implementation of hackertyper.com in emacs.

Usage

• Type M-x hacker-typer and get hacking! Or use C-u M-x hacker-typer to be prompted about the file to use.
• Type M-x hackerman if you’d just like a hacker companion, or C-u M-x hackerman for single-window.
• If you’d like to see hackerman when invoking M-x hacker-typer, set hacker-typer-show-hackerman to t. See more customization options below.
• You can quit with your keyboard-quit binding or M-x hacker-typer-quit.
• You can clear downloaded data with M-x hacker-typer-clear-cache.

NOTE: None of your files are altered.

Installation

This package is on Melpa. To install using use-package:

(use-package hacker-typer
  :ensure t)

Alternatively, using quelpa-use-package:

(use-package hacker-typer
  :quelpa (hacker-typer
           :fetcher github
           :repo "therockmandolinist/emacs-hacker-typer"
           :files (:defaults "hackerman.png")))

Or quelpa:

(quelpa '(hacker-typer
          :fetcher github
          :repo "therockmandolinist/emacs-hacker-typer"
          :files (:defaults "hackerman.png")))

Otherwise, download the files to somewhere on your load path, and enable hacker-typer:

(require 'hacker-typer)

How it works

M-x hacker-typer randomly selects a file from hacker-typer-files (or prompts for one if given a prefix argument) downloading it if necessary, and creates a blank buffer with the name of that file (with random characers prepended). It then creates a local map in which all insert, delete, and enter commands are rebound to insert pieces of the file according to hacker-typer-type-rate.

M-x hackerman displays a humorous image of Rami Malek as “hackerman,” by inserting the file path into a temporary buffer and calling iimage-mode.

NOTE: Modes that get could get in the way are turned off if bound, so let me know if you have more suggestions for these. The current list:

• agressive-indent-mode
• smartparens-mode
• evil-smartparens-mode
• whitespace-mode

Customization

Type M-x customize-group hacker-typer RET to view all customization options.

They are the following:

hacker-typer-files

A list of files to randomly select from. Defaults to 5 emacs C source code files.

Can be web urls that point directly to files, or local files of the form: file:///absolute/path/to/file.

hacker-typer-remove-comments

If set to t, remove comments from files.

hacker-typer-show-hackerman

If set to t, shaw hackerman when calling M-x hacker-typer.

hacker-typer-type-rate

How many characters to type out per keystroke. Can be set to:

• random (default): each keystroke inserts N characters, where N is randomly selected from hacker-typer-random-range.
• integer: types out this many characters per keystroke.

hacker-typer-random-range

Range from which to choose chararcters to type per keystroke if hacker-typer-type-rate is set to ~’random~.

hacker-typer-data-dir

The directory in which to store data for hacker-typer. If no-littering is installed, it defaults to hacker-typer/ under no-littering-var-directory, otherwise placing the folder under user-emacs-directory.

Todo

• It’s possible I should use image-mode to directly open the hackerman file instead, but I’m not sure how to do that with a temporary buffer and I like that temp buffers quit easily (at least, with evil-mode).
• Somewhat relatedly, it would be nice to resize the hackerman image to fit the window, though this might take away from the humor of the immediacy by having to wait for the resize.