From: Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Reading from fortune style file
Date: 13 Mar 2003 17:48:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wk65qmzxw7.fsf@TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873clrel5r.fsf@hotmail.com>
Chris L <chrisl_ak@hotmail.com> writes:
> Does anyone have a bit of lisp that will read from a fortune style
> file and return a random result? I would like something to hook into
> posting styles to create a custom signature by reading a random
> entry...
This isn't quite what you've asked for -- it takes the entries in the
file in order rather than randomly. However, FWIW, mutatis mutandis,
(defun psig ()
"Insert the signature for a personal posting, including a saying."
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-max))
(or (= (char-after (- (point) 1)) ?\n)
(newline 1))
(insert "-- \n--- Joe Fineman jcf@TheWorld.com\n")
(let ((saying ""))
(save-window-excursion
(find-file "~/p/networks/world/gnus/Sayings")
(goto-char (point-min))
(search-forward "#")
(delete-char -1)
(setq fill-prefix nil)
(mark-paragraph)
(setq saying (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))
(exchange-point-and-mark)
(if (eobp) (goto-char (1+ (point-min))))
(insert "#")
(save-buffer))
(insert saying)
))
The Sayings file should have one saying per paragraph, and its first
line should be blank (except, at first, for a "#").
--
--- Joe Fineman jcf@TheWorld.com
||: Quantity for the young, quality for the middle-aged, :||
||: reliability for the old. :||
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