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From: Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Visit random info files?
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:57:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DVzD5-0003Ov-00@lab2.ma.utexas.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050511213038.55882.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> (message from Ryan Bowman on Wed, 11 May 2005 14:30:38 -0700 (PDT))

   Prefacing my question, I know nothing of info files,
   is it possible to write a function that visits a
   randomly chosen page from all available info files?

Yes, in Emacs anything is possible.

   If so, Would someone be willing to instruct me on how
   such a function could be composed (or is there one
   already)?

Can you index the collection of all info pages?  If so, then it is
trivial to make a random selection from this index.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-11 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-11 21:30 Visit random info files? Ryan Bowman
2005-05-11 21:57 ` Joe Corneli [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.4709.1115847214.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-11 23:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-14 12:56 ` Alan Mackenzie

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