From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new file mode: automatic gpg encryption Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hclrbeza.fsf@everybody.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190169369 28309 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2007 02:36:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 19 04:36:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXpQ7-0000OO-1i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:36:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXpQ5-0008Jp-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXpPy-0008HK-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXpPx-0008Gc-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXpPx-0008GW-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25] helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXpPw-0008QW-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.141.227]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070919023556.XIN1592.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A644B8A98; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87hclrbeza.fsf@everybody.org> (Mark A. Hershberger's message of "Tue\, 18 Sep 2007 21\:50\:33 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79256 Archived-At: > On emacswiki.org, I found a snippet of code that uses mailcrypt to > automatically encrypt and decrypt a file with the .gpg extension. > I rewrote this to use the functions bundled with emacs and think it > would be a useful addition to emacs. > It looks like I could just add this to generic-x.el. Is there anything > else I should do? How 'bout posting a patch here? I think it'd be a valuable functionality, but details matter. I don't care much about upon which package it builds, tho: if the design is right, then it can later on be changed to use EasyPG, or whatever else we feel like using. Stefan