* bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items
@ 2013-07-17 21:31 Drew Adams
2014-02-08 6:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Drew Adams @ 2013-07-17 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 14894
I know nothing about file encryption, so feel free to close this if it
is not relevant.
I'm guessing that it makes no sense to try to decrypt a file that is not
encrypted, and that it makes no sense to encrypt a file that is already
encrypted. Perhaps similarly for verifying or signing.
If that is so, then the menu items should have :enable or :visible to
reflect these conditions.
Beyond the menu items, the associated non-Dired commands/functions
should perhaps raise an error or at least show a message if the
requested operation cannot be performed for the given file.
Again, if this does not make sense, please close the bug. Thx.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2013-07-01 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 113246 lekktu@gmail.com-20130701165437-ea20s94hqwp3ttaj
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/usr --enable-checking CFLAGS='-O0 -g3'
CPPFLAGS='-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1 -I/c/usr/include''
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* bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items
2013-07-17 21:31 bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items Drew Adams
@ 2014-02-08 6:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10 1:04 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2014-02-08 6:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 14894
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I know nothing about file encryption, so feel free to close this if it
> is not relevant.
>
> I'm guessing that it makes no sense to try to decrypt a file that is not
> encrypted, and that it makes no sense to encrypt a file that is already
> encrypted. Perhaps similarly for verifying or signing.
>
> If that is so, then the menu items should have :enable or :visible to
> reflect these conditions.
I don't think that's possible for dired to know. The user may want to
encrypt things twice, and the user may want to decrypt a file that dired
doesn't know is encrypted.
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* bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items
2014-02-08 6:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2014-02-10 1:04 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2014-02-10 1:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 14894
> I don't think that's possible for dired to know. The user may want
> to encrypt things twice, and the user may want to decrypt a file that
> dired doesn't know is encrypted.
Yes, that sounds reasonable. Thanks for closing this then.
I was not sure, not knowing much about encryption.
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