[PRL] Looking for 2 bits of emacs code

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Apr 23 14:27:01 EDT 2003


>>>>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:18:55 -0400, "Richard C. Cobbe" <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> said:

RCC> Lo, on Wednesday, April 23, Mitchell Wand did write:
>> 2.  I've got a small database of pithy .sig's.  I need something to
>> randomly grab one of them and insert it into the buffer (call it
>> M-x fortune).  

RCC> Well, since you use VM, check out the following:

RCC> <http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/vm-faq-6.html#ss6.3>

RCC> I've not actually used this, but it's probably worth a look.  I'm fairly
RCC> certain that there are other such packages out there as well.

Ah, cool.  Now if the link to the random-signature package only
worked...  But googling "random signature in Emacs" promptly popped up
some plausible-looking code from 1993.  Thanks.

--Mitch 


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