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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: epa command names
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:41:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3cwfrsn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RPN3t-0007dq-23@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:32:37 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     I don't much like this option because of the inability to handle
>     conflicts.  I'd much rather make M-x a bit more permissive such that M-x
>     mail-encrypt falls back to epa-mail-encrypt (probably via completion).
>
> An aliasing method like this could be a good method
> if it is limited to certain names for which we want it.
>
>     It loop in command list and does (string-match pattern "command_name").
>     This allow to do: 
>     M-x encrypt
>     which will match all commands _containing_ "encrypt"
>
> I do not want such eager completion.  Natural abbreviations
> that we specific want to encourage, such as 
> `encryot-file' for `epa-encrypt-file', should not depend
> on a general mechanism that tries to abbreviate everything.
anything will never match "encryot-file", just try it to have an idea of
what it does and doesn't.
http://repo.or.cz/w/anything-config.git

-- 
  Thierry
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-13  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-11 18:05 epa command names Richard Stallman
2011-11-11 18:26 ` name prefixes [was: epa command names] Drew Adams
2011-11-12  0:30   ` Richard Stallman
2011-11-12  3:52     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-12 23:32       ` Richard Stallman
2011-11-15  6:23         ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-11-15 23:29           ` Richard Stallman
2011-11-12  8:55     ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-11 22:07 ` epa command names Stefan Monnier
2011-11-11 22:28   ` Drew Adams
2011-11-12  2:34   ` Jason Rumney
2011-11-12  3:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-12  3:33       ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-12  6:36   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-11-12  7:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-12  8:07       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-11-12 23:32         ` Richard Stallman
2011-11-13  6:41           ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]

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