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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) |
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Fri, 5 Nov 2021 22:03:11 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) |
* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-11-01 05:11]:
> (defun urandom (bits)
> (interactive "nbits: ")
> (let*((bytes (/ bits 8))
> (bytes-opt (format "--bytes=%s" bytes)) )
> (with-temp-buffer
> (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
> (call-process "head" "/dev/urandom" t nil bytes-opt)
> (string-to-list
> (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)) ))))
> ;; (urandom 100)
I think the above is not portable. And finally, if you use external
program, then you could call `pwgen' directly.
--
Jean
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