Re: elisp question

[Lennart Borgman]

Tim McNamara wrote:

> Seems to me that there are two steps.  One is to count how many files
> are in the directory, and to use that count as the limit for
> (random).  Then to take the "random" number generated by (random) and
> use it with find-file.
>
> Pointers to relevant information are much appreciated!  I am probably
> not even starting in the right place.
>  
Maybe you can use the function `directory-files'?