Timeline for Why doesn't vimscript provide a random number generator?
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| Oct 19, 2020 at 14:01 | answer | added | Luc Hermitte | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 12:11 | history | edited | statox | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 206 characters in body |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 6:20 | answer | added | Maxim Kim | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 6:11 | answer | added | jdhao | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://vi.stackexchange.com/ with https://vi.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 15:13 | vote | accept | statox | ||
| Jul 8, 2015 at 3:00 | comment | added | Janis | @Carpetsmoker; it's obvious that there's a lot places where random numbers are helpful. But you didn't explain why that would be a sensible feature in an editor. In my book, an editor is used to create and modify texts and not to perform shell tasks like creating temporary files. To obtain functions of external commands vi and vim also support a standard interface, so it seems unnecessary to implement every possible function in the editor. But, again; feel free to elaborate on the necessity for a built-in. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 9:04 | comment | added | Martin Tournoij | @Janis Some places where it would be useful in an editor: creating UUID's, creating uniquely named temp files/dirs (e.g. mkstemp()), creating "secrets" (many applications have a "secret" for encrypting cookies and whatnot)... | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 19:48 | comment | added | statox | @Janis: I agree that it is not necessarily a core feature of an editor. I'm using it to shuffle the letters of a string (really that's just to learn vimscript I will not say that this plugin will change the world). So I'm not specifically asking for it I was simply genuinely wondering why it isn't implemented. Your last point is totally fair that's not how a feature should be added in a software I can only agree with you :-) | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 19:42 | history | edited | muru | CC BY-SA 3.0 | grammar fixes |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 17:56 | comment | added | Janis | I can't see that such a function would make sense in an editor - but that, of course, doesn't mean there couldn't be a sensible application; and I'm certainly keen to know if there's any and why you are specifically asking for one. - Just one point: "a rand() function won't hurt" is just about the worst argument to introduce one. | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 17:09 | answer | added | romainl | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 17:09 | answer | added | VanLaser | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 16:54 | history | asked | statox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |