bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

[Richard Stallman]

The command name base64url-encode-region causes completion
inconvenience.  I am accustomed to typing base SPC dec RET
and now it does not work.

That name seems strange anyway.

Would you please rename it to base64-url-encode-region?



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bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:52:32 -0500
> 
> The command name base64url-encode-region causes completion
> inconvenience.  I am accustomed to typing base SPC dec RET
> and now it does not work.
> 
> That name seems strange anyway.

It's the official name of that encoding:

  https://base64.guru/standards/base64url

> Would you please rename it to base64-url-encode-region?

We could rename that, but the name base64-url-encoder would not be
familiar to users, so it would be a disadvantage.

Any chance you could train yourself to type "M-x bas-d RET" instead?

bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Would you please rename it to base64-url-encode-region?

  > We could rename that, but the name base64-url-encoder would not be
  > familiar to users, so it would be a disadvantage.

What was the first release that base64url-encode-region was in?

  > Any chance you could train yourself to type "M-x bas-d RET" instead?

That does not complete.
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bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: 38053@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:14:44 -0500
> 
>   > > Would you please rename it to base64-url-encode-region?
> 
>   > We could rename that, but the name base64-url-encoder would not be
>   > familiar to users, so it would be a disadvantage.
> 
> What was the first release that base64url-encode-region was in?

Emacs 27, so renaming is not a problem from the POV.  The problem is
that this is the name of that conversion, we didn't invent it
ourselves.

>   > Any chance you could train yourself to type "M-x bas-d RET" instead?
> 
> That does not complete.

Strange, it does here, in "emacs -Q".

bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>>   > We could rename that, but the name base64-url-encoder would not be
>>   > familiar to users, so it would be a disadvantage.
>> 
>> What was the first release that base64url-encode-region was in?
>
> Emacs 27, so renaming is not a problem from the POV.  The problem is
> that this is the name of that conversion, we didn't invent it
> ourselves.

I don't think there's anything here to fix -- the encoding is called
"base64url", so the command name is logical.  So I'm closing this bug
report.

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