From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 22:03:40 +0800 Message-ID: <877h9y1wlf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ipu3v0ru.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871v0raqub.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <42A7030B-DE0C-4CCA-A768-B82BE70C42F9@raeburn.org> <87liyynm6a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83aaewjq1x.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjsnvrkr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305036254 15908 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2011 14:04:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:04:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 10 16:04:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJnXl-0001Ua-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 16:04:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJnXl-0001Xh-Eh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJnXg-0001XM-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJnXc-0001cd-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:54605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJnXc-0001cZ-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk4 with SMTP id 4so4243219pzk.0 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 07:03:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:from:to:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=MSV5mID2hWJB+9sIfow2Uo10gim/9tVYuR3J9K1H8w0=; b=wdBjCCE0BVKIl9Zp9lfLgQ9crlC8e5lJQqLFNubnaLE4oABwoseNRUEz+xzCxzfkZn piTa4ziK/QYiA2ZtBL/0x1Ptl7lxmhZLhhN2QSuwMRtjFgPIJKLQlqTpRteT0RX5tI/w wyfQWDDRXlEucncpFvEj3dmLkdrII5pGFaVHA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=EswtroXZD0X4eqEYoRf+EVyVz8ZmOZbDvD+W/XFdbv3VeU5OxqLOvAwzXbpPyNVmSN 3T4JsPNS0zHjGUXZDztAJolyo5MdUQRm2gmU8IyEei4Aw9FT5+6f49DDwhZkbPw+k3ce CTVxTHgcAZ7wBNBqr+tAGOBOqJc6f+zrBJJYY= Original-Received: by 10.68.13.4 with SMTP id d4mr3795389pbc.64.1305036238898; Tue, 10 May 2011 07:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.5.120]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h4sm4834826pbj.2.2011.05.10.07.03.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 10 May 2011 07:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 458118AB; Tue, 10 May 2011 22:03:41 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 09 May 2011 19:50:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139304 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > But getting the Emacs RNG seeded would be nice, because it's now 100% > predictable. Which is annoying when I say `M-x jukebox-play-at-random', > which always plays songs in exactly the same order (after an Emacs > restart). I had a sense of deja vu reading your post, and looked it up. Sure enough, this was implemented already. Try adding (random t) to your .emacs.