From: Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net>
Subject: Re: elisp question
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:05:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sltcxq9t.fsf@Althea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86mzjkwlaq.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in
"N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> writes:
> At 2005-12-01T13:32:02-06:00, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> `fortune.el' does use the standard Unix command fortune(6) to do the
> actual work. However, the cookie files used by fortune(6) need not
> be the standard ones. They could, for instance, be the Dhammapada
> verses you want to use.
>
> I forgot to point out that before you can do what I had suggested,
> you need to create the data files for your fortunes, using
> strfile(8):
>
> cd ~/kaya; for i in [0-9]*; do strfile $i; done
Thank you for that!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-02 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-30 23:13 elisp question Tim McNamara
2005-11-30 23:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-01 5:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-01 19:29 ` Tim McNamara
2005-12-01 21:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-02 1:02 ` Tim McNamara
2005-12-02 17:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-01 6:24 ` N. Raghavendra
2005-12-01 19:32 ` Tim McNamara
2005-12-01 21:37 ` N. Raghavendra
2005-12-01 23:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-12-02 7:44 ` N. Raghavendra
2005-12-02 14:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-12-02 1:05 ` Tim McNamara [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.17404.1133392955.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-12-01 19:25 ` Tim McNamara
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2009-09-27 14:32 Elisp Question magicus
2009-09-27 15:26 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-09-27 17:10 ` magicus
[not found] <mailman.941.1223918781.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-13 18:11 ` elisp question Niels Giesen
2008-10-13 19:09 ` Seweryn Kokot
[not found] ` <mailman.948.1223924333.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-13 19:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-13 20:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-13 21:11 ` Seweryn Kokot
2008-10-13 17:36 Seweryn Kokot
2008-04-30 21:23 harven
2008-05-01 13:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.11020.1209647315.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-01 13:54 ` harven
2008-05-03 15:38 ` Bastien
2003-08-20 7:37 Mike Ballard
2003-08-20 8:07 ` Joakim Hove
2003-08-22 5:52 ` Mike Ballard
2003-08-22 6:38 ` Joakim Hove
2003-08-20 15:07 ` Peter Lee
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