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bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:07:22 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I know nothing about file encryption, so feel free to close this if it
> is not relevant.
>
> I'm guessing that it makes no sense to try to decrypt a file that is not
> encrypted, and that it makes no sense to encrypt a file that is already
> encrypted. Perhaps similarly for verifying or signing.
>
> If that is so, then the menu items should have :enable or :visible to
> reflect these conditions.
I don't think that's possible for dired to know. The user may want to
encrypt things twice, and the user may want to decrypt a file that dired
doesn't know is encrypted.
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- bug#14894: 24.3.50; :enable or :visible for encryption menu items,
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