From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eww Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:41:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389627662 25874 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2014 15:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 13 16:41:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2jdR-0003O3-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:41:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43259 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2jdR-0004M0-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:41:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2jdO-0004KX-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2jdN-0000fz-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2jdM-0000fv-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2jdM-0004sY-Ac; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:41:00 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:50:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168296 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think epa also needs a set of natural aliases, with "crypt" instead > of "epa". We introduced define-alternatives for exactly that case. It's just that nobody has used it yet. We may be miscommunicating. I don't see a need for define-alternatives here, because simple defalias would work: e.g., (defalias 'crypt-mail-encrypt 'epa-mail-encrypt) Why not? Do you have in mind something else it should mean? It's easy enough to do this, but then the documentation needs updating. For browsing, perhaps define-alternatives should be used. I never use those features, so I am not sure what commands should be defined, or what their alternative meaning should be. The doc string of define-alternatives is not very clear but I think it does the wrong thing. I have think the user should be able to specify a choice of browsing package just once, and it should affect all such commands for browsing. My point is that this really needs to be done before the release. We should prevent an ugliness from ever getting into a release. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.