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Subject: Re: Let us see how to encrypt with Emacs?
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 15:28:36 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-07-09 14:56]:
> > You are misinterpreting what the manual shows.  STRING in upper-case
> > is a meta-syntactic variable, it means in actual usage you need to
> > _replace_ it with a Lisp string.  So just use "Text to encrypt",
> > without the rest.
> 
> Aaa. That? OK I got confused with the wordings:
> 
> The inputs to GnuTLS cryptographic functions can be specified in several
> ways, both as primitive Emacs Lisp types or as lists.

"Lists" like the ones documented in "Format of GnuTLS Cryptography
Inputs", not just any arbitrary list.