> a pwd generater requires random values:
> :h rand*(<tab>
> does not show anything - thus VimL does not support random values.
> On linux like operating systems you can use /dev/(u)random and read some
> chars or you can use interfaces to the supported scripting languages
> (python,ruby,..) or use additional external tools.
>
> Of course you could base it on the time which you can query using some VimL
> functions as well.
> It all depends on your security requirements.
>
See http://drchip.0sites.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#RNDM for a
pseudo-random number generator for vimL.
One should be able to gin up a password generator with it and nr2char().
Regards,
Chip
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