From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 14894@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:07:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh3e16jp.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60ddd366-d5f9-4d2d-ac37-382e96f40303@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:31:59 -0700 (PDT)")
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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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 [this message]
2014-02-10 1:04 ` Drew Adams
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