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Re: epa command names


From: Thierry Volpiatto
Subject: Re: epa command names
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:41:12 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I don't much like this option because of the inability to handle
>     conflicts.  I'd much rather make M-x a bit more permissive such that M-x
>     mail-encrypt falls back to epa-mail-encrypt (probably via completion).
>
> An aliasing method like this could be a good method
> if it is limited to certain names for which we want it.
>
>     It loop in command list and does (string-match pattern "command_name").
>     This allow to do: 
>     M-x encrypt
>     which will match all commands _containing_ "encrypt"
>
> I do not want such eager completion.  Natural abbreviations
> that we specific want to encourage, such as 
> `encryot-file' for `epa-encrypt-file', should not depend
> on a general mechanism that tries to abbreviate everything.
anything will never match "encryot-file", just try it to have an idea of
what it does and doesn't.
http://repo.or.cz/w/anything-config.git

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