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.
>
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