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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: epa command names
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:32:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RPN3t-0007dq-23@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty693gt6.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Thierry Volpiatto on Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:07:01 +0100)

    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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-12 23:32 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 [this message]
2011-11-13  6:41           ` Thierry Volpiatto

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