Re: Crazy idea: generate a pseudo-random value for tramp-end-of-output

[Kai Großjohann]

Francis Litterio <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> I've now committed it.
>
> I just did a "cvs update" but don't see your change.  "cvs log" reports
> that the latest revision is 2.242.  Is that the revision with the change?

I forgot to commit.  Thanks for the reminder.  The commit is running
at this moment.

>> I hope it works.  Instead of requiring
>> time-stamp, I took current-time-string.  Is that okay, Francis?
>
> Sure.  I don't know why I didn't use current-time-string in the first
> place.  Actually, if you don't use the time-stamp-* functions, you don't
> need the (require 'time-stamp).

I thought there was some magic to the strings returned by the
time-stamp functions.  Alright, so we use current-time-string.

>> The string is sometimes used as a regexp.  Do I need to invoke
>> regexp-quote on it, or does it (the output of md5) always contain
>> letters and digits only, so that this is not necessary?
>
> Correct.  Function md5 returns a string of 32 hex digits.

Fine.

kai
-- 
~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn    (Frank Nobis)