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From: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x epa-...
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 00:51:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM9Zgm2U8_vEn+epbuJtuioky5UXN_z41jRG4P4EDU9EnTBR-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ut1mp-0004oF-Cb@fencepost.gnu.org>

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Indeed. epa-... is an absolutely terrible name. I remember the first time I
used some of the commands there I had to look up the meaning of EPA in the
source code...


On 29 June 2013 23:30, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
> www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
>   Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-30 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-29 20:30 M-x epa- Richard Stallman
2013-06-30 21:51 ` Bozhidar Batsov [this message]
2013-07-01 12:20 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-07-01 14:01   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-01 18:45     ` Richard Stallman

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