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Re: elisp question
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Tim McNamara |
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Re: elisp question |
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:32:02 -0600 |
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"N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> writes:
> At 2005-11-30T17:13:33-06:00, Tim McNamara wrote:
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>> 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)
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> 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:
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> (setq fortune-buffer-name "*Dharma*")
> (add-hook 'after-init-hook
> (lambda ()
> (fortune (expand-file-name "~/kaya"))))
Thank you, I will look into that further. I didn't realize that Emacs
had its own fortune program and had errantly thought that the standard
Unix fortune was being called. Dang- I've been using Emacs for 2-3
years and am still a newbie!
Re: elisp question, Tim McNamara, 2005/12/01