Re: elisp question

[Stefan Monnier]

>> (let ((files (directory-files "foo/bar/kaya" 'full "[^.]\\|...")))
>> (pop-to-buffer (find-file-noselect (nth (random (length files)) files))))

> That looks simpler than what I was thinking, although I'll have to go
> through it argument by argument to make sure I understand it.  I was
> expecting to have to count the number of files in the directory, then

(length files) counts the number of files.

> use that number as the limit to (random),

Indeed, that's what it does.

> and somehow be able to make (find-files) use the result from (random) as
> the name of the file to be read into the buffer.

Indeed (nth ... files) selects the randomly chosen file name from the list
of file names.


        Stefan