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Some Advice for How to Make Emacs Tetris Harder (2019)


Did you know that Emacs comes bundled with an implementation of Tetris? Just hit M-x tetris and there it is:

No more sitting that S/Z block in a precarious position knowing that you can fill in the space with the next piece – you have to chance it and hope for the best. There are a lot of different ways to use Emacs advice ( check the manual), but for now we’ll just stick with the advice-add function with the:around flag. Using advice, modify Emacs Tetris so that it flashes the messsage “OH SHIT” under the scoreboard every time the block moves down.

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