flag to use tor

[Richard Stallman]

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Many Emacs commands connect to internet sites for various reasons.
vc does so, M-x irc does so, and I don't know how much else.

I want to connect through Tor all the time, but sometimes these
commands betray me.  I added a switch to VC to make it connect
through Tor always, but it would be good to have a facility that
would do this to all internet connections that Emacs packages make.

Some packages connect directly in Lisp. and some connect by running
subprocesses.  For the subprocesses, using 'torsocks' is an easy fix.
The hard part is to change all the packages that need fixing.

A super-simple approach is to have a switch with two settings: Tor, or
not Tor.  A more complex feature would give a systematic way to
specify exceptions.

What do people think?


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)