Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-10-24 12:32]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> > I fully get this. Though ideology is a pleasant game for
> > mind though not useful if it cannot be
> > practically implemented.
> 
> "Ideology" :D
> 
> Are you into politics now, Jean? :)
> 
> But actually it isn't true, if pwgen can use /dev/urandom,
> /dev/random and/or the thermal noise of the HDD, that's as
> practical as it gets.
> 
> So we shouldn't disrespect that just because Elisp cannot do
> it/certain individual likes to ... etc etc.

How "disrespect"? It is not related to it.

`pwgen' is system command, good for let us say shell, but Emacs is
much more and is integrated into database on my side. If then Emacs
Lisp programs run on different systems, I like if they don't depend on
too many external commands, especially one as simple as password
generation. 

I cannot write `ffmpeg' so I convert videos by using Emacs Lisp on
remote computers calling external `ffmpeg'. 



-- 
Jean

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