Subject: Re: bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 05:33:57 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:14:44 -0500
> 
>   > > Would you please rename it to base64-url-encode-region?
> 
>   > We could rename that, but the name base64-url-encoder would not be
>   > familiar to users, so it would be a disadvantage.
> 
> What was the first release that base64url-encode-region was in?

Emacs 27, so renaming is not a problem from the POV.  The problem is
that this is the name of that conversion, we didn't invent it
ourselves.

>   > Any chance you could train yourself to type "M-x bas-d RET" instead?
> 
> That does not complete.

Strange, it does here, in "emacs -Q".