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Re: epa command names


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: epa command names
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:32:37 -0500

    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.

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