From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim McNamara Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp question Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:25:28 -0600 Organization: ipHouse - Welcome Home! Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133465662 10841 80.91.229.2 (1 Dec 2005 19:34:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 20:34:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ehu8h-0005zj-Gg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:30:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ehu8f-0004rt-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:30:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!news-2.mpls.iphouse.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XZAmMbT2mdavtQajjBBejzvj0Fs= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Dec 2005 13:25:28 CST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 753a659a.newsreader.iphouse.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=^55XS5`cX^1A[b@Z5jji66Vn\Tj8`^Bb; eHS>e[L>8304V09HFNfSN3m:@8]TdIgg5f@e7N90MVd=Uh?jdWg@OU5 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@iphouse.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135976 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:31583 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > Tim McNamara wrote: > >>Seems to me that there are two steps. One is to count how many >>files are in the directory, and to use that count as the limit for >>(random). Then to take the "random" number generated by (random) >>and use it with find-file. >> >>Pointers to relevant information are much appreciated! I am >>probably not even starting in the right place. >> >> > Maybe you can use the function `directory-files'? Thanks, I'll look into that.