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I think I found an easter egg in neovim :neovim: just by chance, I typed ":smile" as a command and it gave me an ASCII art as the output. 🤩
Video below shows the output, I had to record the output because if I took only a screenshot more then half of the output would had been cut off. I know a screen cast is a bit too much just to show an ASCII art, but this is the only way that I can show the whole output. 😅

I was delighted to see Lateral's latest episode is about the man command's easter egg, what a treat. 😍 I know the answer as early as I see the title of the video, how can one forget this funny little thing exist after they heard about it once, it's just too catchy. I'm not an ABBA fun but this songs lyrics still stuck in my mind. 😂

'Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight ('half past twelve)' or I should say just "gimme gimme gimme", the man command's output when you run it in 00:30. 😂

Edit: 😢 Sadly the fun has ended years before, this easter egg was removed 7 years ago. This detail somehow escaped me.

#easteregg #man #unix #linux #lateral

Lateral with Tom Scott - A late night UNIX feature.

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