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Re: elisp question
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N. Raghavendra |
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Re: elisp question |
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01 Dec 2005 11:54:28 +0530 |
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At 2005-11-30T17:13:33-06:00, Tim McNamara wrote:
> I am looking to write a small program for Emacs which will create a
> new buffer and read a randomly selected text file into it after
> launching Emacs- rather like yow or fortune, except the files would be
> Dharma snippets. ...
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> The files are in a subdirectory (called kaya)
You could use the `fortune.el' which is part of Emacs, and uses
fortune(6) to randomly select a cookie. The relevant init file
expressions are like this:
(setq fortune-buffer-name "*Dharma*")
(add-hook 'after-init-hook
(lambda ()
(fortune (expand-file-name "~/kaya"))))
HTH,
Raghavendra.
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Re: elisp question, Tim McNamara, 2005/12/01