glitcherature mode
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By Rob Myers <rob@robmyers.org> .

Glitch text in Emacs.

Inspired by Orphan Drift's novel "Cyberpositive", Peter Harkins's "Well-Sorted Version" & Kim Aserndorf's pixel sorting, and OCR errors everywhere.

Installation
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Make sure you have gocr installed (e.g. sudo apt-get install gocr ).

Save glitcherature-mode.el to a directory in your Emacs load-path.

Add the following to your dot emacs file:

(require 'glitcherature-mode)

Then either add the following to your dot emacs file:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'glitcherature-mode)

or each time you wish to use glitcherature-mode type the following in Emacs:

M-x glitcherature-mode

Usage
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Glitcherature key commands only work on the text in the active region. Select the text you wish to modify before using them otherwise nothing will happen.

Glitcherature key commands start with C-c C-g.

The prefix argument usually supplies a probability, but may be used to supply a count.

See the documentation string for each function for more details.

An Example (Ulysses - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300)
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Uly_R_

 STATELY, plump Buck Mulligan came from the STAIRHEAD, BEARING A bowl of LATHER on which A MIRROR AND a RAZOR LAY CROSSED. A YELLOW DRESSINGGOWN, ungirdled, was SUSTAINED GENTLY BEHIND him ON THE MILD morning AIR. He HELD THE bowl ALOFT and INTONED:

—Introibo AD ALTARE DEI.

HALTED, HE PEERED down THE DARK winding stairs AND CALLED out coarsely:

—Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!

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—Back to barracks! he said sternly.

He added in a preacher's tone:
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—For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns. Slow music, please. Shut your eyes, gents. One moment. A little trouble about those white corpuscles. Silence, all.

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—Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely. Switch off the current, will you?
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HE SKIPPED OFF the gunrest and looked GRAVELY at his watcher, gathering ABOUT HIS LEGS THE LOOSE FOLDS OF his gown. THE PLUMP shadowed face and SULLEN oval JOWL recalled A PRELATE, patron OF ARTS in the MIDDLE AGES. A PLEASANT SMILE broke quietly OVER his lips.

—The mockery of it! he said gaily. Your absurd name, an ancient C_ek
!

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He laid the brush aside and, laughing with delight, cried:

—Will he come? The jejune jesuit!

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—Tell me, Mulligan, Stephen said quietly.

—Yes, my 1o\\//3?

—How long is Haines going to stay in this tower?

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—God, `|sn't he dreadful? he said )=ra~kly. A pon∂erous Saxon. He thinks you're not a gentleman. God, these bloØdy E~glis)-(! Bginrstu hitw emnoy adn .degiiinnost Baceesu eh cemos fmor .Odforx You ,know ,Dadelsu ouy aehv eht aelr Odforx .aemnnr He 'acnt aekm ouy .otu ,O my aemn for ouy is eht :best ,Kchin eht -.abdeefikln

He shaved warily over his chin.

—He WAS raving all night about A black PANTHER, Stephen SAID. Where IS his GUNCASE?

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—Scutter! he cried thickly.

H3 c@m3 ()v3r t() th3 g\/nr3st @nd, thr\/st!ng @ h@nd !nt() St3ph3n's \/pp3r p()ck3t, s@!d:

—Lend us a loan of your noserag to wipe my razor.

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He mounted to the parapet again and gazed out over Dublin bay, his fair oakpale hair stirring slightly.

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