Re: Back to emacsclient/server

[Stefan Monnier]

> I don't think repeatability is realistic within Emacs, because a Lisp
> function cannot have any control over other functions that might have called
> random before it.  If repeatability is desired, then we need a function to
> set the random seed to a known value, so Lisp code that requires
> repeatability can call it at the start of its psuedorandom number
> generation. As far as I can tell, no such function exists.

Agreed.  A quick "grep '(random t)' **/*.el" shows that many packages freely
use (random t).  I think Emacs should do a (random t) at startup.


        Stefan