From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 22:03:11 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87zgr0t3vw.fsf@web.de> <87o87fy4t3.fsf@zoho.eu> <87ilxmsuqq.fsf@web.de> <87k0hxj37u.fsf@zoho.eu> <878rydbcm4.fsf@web.de> <8735okj2bx.fsf@zoho.eu> <87fsskzroz.fsf@zoho.eu> <877ddsgbx0.fsf@web.de> <878ry8vd71.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15367"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 05 20:05:48 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 1mj4X6-0003m8-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:05:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59768 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mj4X4-0006rL-4w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:05:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mj4WU-0006pl-1R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:41413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mj4WQ-0002GA-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.155.136]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000031EC1.000000006185805F.000076EF; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:05:02 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878ry8vd71.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:134383 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2021-11-01 05:11]: > (defun urandom (bits) > (interactive "nbits: ") > (let*((bytes (/ bits 8)) > (bytes-opt (format "--bytes=%s" bytes)) ) > (with-temp-buffer > (set-buffer-multibyte nil) > (call-process "head" "/dev/urandom" t nil bytes-opt) > (string-to-list > (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)) )))) > ;; (urandom 100) I think the above is not portable. And finally, if you use external program, then you could call `pwgen' directly. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/