From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-x epa-... Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:01:22 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87y59qidl9.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8761wusc8m.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372687310 7923 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 14:01:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 14:01:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 01 16:01:50 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Utefu-0003JF-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:01:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uteft-0002m1-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Utefm-0002lY-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Utefh-00080i-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Utefh-00080W-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Utefb-00033b-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:01:31 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.34.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:01:31 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:01:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i8Dzyamwr5HUj5i3eIhi/jvU7VQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161411 Archived-At: On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:20:25 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: DU> Richard Stallman writes: >> The command names M-x epa-... are not natural for people to remember. >> `epa' is, effectively, a magic code. >> >> Surely we can do better. For instance, we could make an alias for >> each command with `crypt' instead of `epa'. >> >> You might have a better idea for precisely how to do this, but let's >> do it somehow. The existing names are totally unhelpful. DU> How about prefixing 'gnupg' (same length as 'crypt') Do we want to make the dependency on GPG so explicit? DU> or simply calling them without the prefix, like 'M-x sign-region'? I'd love those aliases for top-level interactive commands: sign a region, encrypt/decrypt a region, verify a signature... Ted