From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:30:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87bl3exole.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87o87hnrpt.fsf@zoho.eu> <87y26kkuag.fsf@web.de> <87lf2izs3d.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24967"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:uZb8riuxhTaiBw+1qvoTaTUtt4w= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 20:32:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1meiIQ-0006FV-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:32:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49524 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meiIP-0004GE-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meiGU-0004Dn-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1meiGP-0007wZ-Hr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1meiGM-0003ms-Bt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:30:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134124 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > `pwgen' is system command pwgen is a program. > good for let us say shell, but Emacs is much more and is > integrated into database on my side Emacs is integrated with the shell so that solution is easier (more practical that way), better, and you can still use/write your own/a custom interface (so equally practical in THAT way). Also it will take advantages of further improvements to pwgen or possible forks or other such programs with no or very small adjustments ... > If then Emacs Lisp programs run on different systems, I like > if they don't depend on too many external commands Indeed must be used to benefit the user ... > especially one as simple as password generation. But not simple enough for you do to it at the level of the CLI command ... > I cannot write `ffmpeg' so I convert videos by using Emacs > Lisp on remote computers calling external `ffmpeg'. But you cannot write a pwgen either - or at least, you haven't yet ... so what's the difference? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal