Feeling Down? Let Eliza Cheer You Up

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Eliza is a psychiatrist, and best of all, she offers her services free of charge to anyone with Mac OS X. To find her, open Terminal.app and type:emacs and hit enter/return. Then hold down Shift and press Esc. Now type:xdoctor then press enter/return. You have now entered Eliza’s office. She will ask you a series of questions. All you need to do is type in your answer and hit enter/return twice after each answer. Who knows, maybe you’ll rediscover yourself, but then again, probably not.

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Written by Michael Zhao on April 1, 2008 at 7:00 am - Feeling Down? Let Eliza Cheer You Up has 17 comments - Categorized in Advanced Tips, Humor, Terminal Tips

17 Responses to “Feeling Down? Let Eliza Cheer You Up”

Charlie

I followed your directions and this is what happened:

Last login: Tue Apr 1 10:44:46 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
user-0cdf283:~ charlesdale$ emacs
dumpemacs: Must be run as root unless -n is used
emacs: child exited with status 1
user-0cdf283:~ charlesdale$ xdoctor
-bash: xdoctor: command not found
user-0cdf283:~ charlesdale$ April 1st, 2008 at 8:49 am
Norris

This is an April Fools Joke. April 1st, 2008 at 9:28 am
Brad Jasper

Actually this one isn't an April Fools Joke, but it seems like it would be :)

Charlie, looks like you must run "emacs -n" instead of "emacs"

That should work for you. April 1st, 2008 at 10:30 am
Ray

haha wow Its definitely not a joke I talked to that ho eliza for like twenty minutes its addicting April 1st, 2008 at 11:04 am
Brad Jasper

Ray, And did you learn anything about yourself?

She kept telling me I have issues because I was swearing at her ;) April 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am
Robert

haha wow that thing is awesome, I so thought it was going to be an April fool's joke but Eliza is real!! and I agree with Ray it is addicting! April 1st, 2008 at 11:53 am
Charlie

So I tried it with emacs -n and there is still a problem.

Last login: Tue Apr 1 19:21:15 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
user-0cdf283:~ charlesdale$ emacs -n
dumpemacs: Must be run as root unless -n is used
emacs: child exited with status 1
user-0cdf283:~ charlesdale$ xdoctor
-bash: xdoctor: command not found
user-0cdf283:~ charlesdale$

Why is it giving me such a problem and not to no one else? April 1st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Brad Jasper

Charlie,

Perhaps try "sudo emacs" then type your password.

Not sure why its giving you problems.

- Brad April 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
san

I wish I can meet her. April 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Charlie

That worked... sudo emacs...what does that do that it works? Here is what happened when I typed sudo emacs...

File Edit Options Buffers Tools Help
Welcome to GNU Emacs

Get help C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h)
Undo changes C-x u Exit Emacs C-x C-c
Get a tutorial C-h t Use Info to read docs C-h i
Ordering manuals C-h RET
Activate menubar F10 or ESC ` or M-`
(`C-' means use the CTRL key. `M-' means use the Meta (or Alt) key.
If you have no Meta key, you may instead type ESC followed by the character.)

GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0)
of 2008-04-02 on user-0cdf283.cable.mindspring.com
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details.
Emacs is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute copies
of Emacs and modify it; type C-h C-c to see the conditions.
Type C-h C-d for information on getting the latest version.

----:---F1 *scratch* (Lisp Interaction)--L1--All-----------------------
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.

File Edit Options Buffers Tools Help
;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,
;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.

----:---F1 *scratch* (Lisp Interaction)--L5--All-----------------------
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.

Then I was able to talk to Eliza April 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 am
Brad Jasper

Charlie, sudo is a command used to run a program as an administrator. So "sudo emacs" runs the program emacs as an administrator.

Based on the errors you were giving me it looked like you were having permissions problems.

Elevating your privileges generally helps this (as in your case).

It's not a great idea to randomly try sudo when a command doesn't work.

In fact, I would highly recommend NOT using sudo unless you know exactly what you're doing. You can really screw up your system by haphazardly using sudo.

Glad to hear it worked for you. April 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am
Aaron

Im getting a message saying no match! April 2nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Anonymous

When I tried Sudo, it said this thing about how my user was not in the Sudoers file and the incident will be reported. What does that mean? April 2nd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Jordan

some reason, when I hold down shift and hit esc it opens media center? April 23rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
anon

it took me a minute to get it going... i was reading it as to hold down shift and escape and type xdoctor... do not ... hold shift, hit escape, release all keys and then type xdoctor April 24th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Me

she kept telling me i needed a lesson in creative writing??? Anyone know what that means??? June 4th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Marcelo

Oh boy! I had a date with her last night! She's so hooooooooot. But asks too much! June 26th, 2008 at 7:03 am