From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x epa-...
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:01:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y59qidl9.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8761wusc8m.fsf-ueno@gnu.org
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:20:25 +0900 Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> wrote:
DU> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
DU> How about prefixing 'gnupg' (same length as 'crypt')
Do we want to make the dependency on GPG so explicit?
DU> or simply calling them without the prefix, like 'M-x sign-region'?
I'd love those aliases for top-level interactive commands: sign a
region, encrypt/decrypt a region, verify a signature...
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 14:01 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
2013-07-01 12:20 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-07-01 14:01 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-07-01 18:45 ` Richard Stallman
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