Emacs psychiatrist

Emacs psychiatrist

[gykati]

Hello!

   I studied Emacs psychiatrist, and I think that behind
the program there is a vivid person (or persons?).
Is it so? I simply couldn't understand how one person could
reply to so many persons, who decided to use the program
Emacs psychiatrist.

   Is the Emacs psychiatrist a real psychiatrist? Or do you
work on artificial intelligent and it is a very complex program?
(I don't think so...) I just started to interest in computers,
and anyway I found this program is very humorous.

   Could you answer to my questions? I am extremly curious.

   Another problem is that sending mails by emacs doesn't work on my
computer. Could you fix  it?

Best regards,
                                       Katalin Gyarmati

RE: Emacs psychiatrist

[Drew Adams]

>    I studied Emacs psychiatrist, and I think that behind
> the program there is a vivid person (or persons?).
> Is it so? I simply couldn't understand how one person could
> reply to so many persons, who decided to use the program
> Emacs psychiatrist.
> 
>    Is the Emacs psychiatrist a real psychiatrist? Or do you
> work on artificial intelligent and it is a very complex program?
> (I don't think so...) I just started to interest in computers,
> and anyway I found this program is very humorous.

If you can't tell, then what's the difference? ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

Anyway, yes, it's a program. The source code is in library `doctor.el'. You
can find out about any Emacs function by using `C-h f' - in this case, `C-h
f doctor'. The function description give you a link to the source code. The
source code for all of Emacs is available at your fingertips. Enjoy.

Re: Emacs psychiatrist

[Peter Tury]

On márc. 20, 23:31, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:

> Anyway, yes, it's a program. The source code is in library `doctor.el'. You
> can find out about any Emacs function by using `C-h f' - in this case, `C-h
> f doctor'.

Why "doctor"? Use C-h k and then click onto the menu: you will see
what is really called...

> The function description give you a link to the source code. The
> source code for all of Emacs is available at your fingertips. Enjoy.

Except if you installed "barebin" version (I guess).

Anyway. Please use gnu.emacs.help for simple questions.
...bug is for bug reports. And, if I remember well, gnus (mailing) has
its own newsgroup.

\bye
P

Re: Emacs psychiatrist

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Mar 21 2008, Peter Tury wrote:

> And, if I remember well, gnus (mailing) has its own newsgroup.

Emacs has several mail user agents.  The OP didn't mention Gnus.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Emacs psychiatrist

[Stefan Monnier]

>    I studied Emacs psychiatrist, and I think that behind
> the program there is a vivid person (or persons?).
> Is it so? I simply couldn't understand how one person could
> reply to so many persons, who decided to use the program
> Emacs psychiatrist.

>    Is the Emacs psychiatrist a real psychiatrist? Or do you
> work on artificial intelligent and it is a very complex program?
> (I don't think so...) I just started to interest in computers,
> and anyway I found this program is very humorous.

Actually, it's not a psychiatrist (obviously: it doesn't prescribe any
drug), just a psychoanalyst.
You may want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

>    Another problem is that sending mails by Emacs doesn't work on my
> computer.  Could you fix it?

Have you asked M-x doctor?
More seriously, we can't help you if you don't give us more information
about what you tried to do and what happened.


        Stefan

Re: Emacs psychiatrist

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Actually, it's not a psychiatrist (obviously: it doesn't prescribe any
> drug), just a psychoanalyst.

Well, that's incorrect I believe. Shouldn't it be

   Actually, it's not a psychiatrist (obviously: it doesn't
   just prescribe some drug), it is a psychoanalyst.

Re: Emacs psychiatrist

[Joost Diepenmaat]

gykati@cs.elte.hu writes:

> Hello!
>
>    I studied Emacs psychiatrist, and I think that behind
> the program there is a vivid person (or persons?).
> Is it so? I simply couldn't understand how one person could
> reply to so many persons, who decided to use the program
> Emacs psychiatrist.
>
>    Is the Emacs psychiatrist a real psychiatrist? Or do you
> work on artificial intelligent and it is a very complex program?
> (I don't think so...) I just started to interest in computers,
> and anyway I found this program is very humorous.
>
>    Could you answer to my questions? I am extremly curious.

Haha. *cough*

Anyway, In case you're serious or just interested in the subject, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

>    Another problem is that sending mails by emacs doesn't work on my
> computer. Could you fix  it?

Somebody might, if you can provide enough detail so they can figure out
what you're doing and why it doesn't work...

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