From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Visit random info files? Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:56:53 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116080630 19369 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2005 14:23:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 14:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 14 16:23:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWxYO-0007hf-BA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 16:23:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWxa1-00019D-Hw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 10:25:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.belwue.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1116079879 65747 193.149.49.134 (14 May 2005 14:11:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 May 2005 14:11:19 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130933 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26593 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26593 Ryan Bowman wrote 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? If so, Would someone be willing to instruct me on how such > a function could be composed (or is there one already)? Maybe it's not quite what you're looking for, but C-u C-h i might do. It loads the file you tell it as an info file. > Ryan Bowman -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").