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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:47:59 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:52:32 -0500
> 
> The command name base64url-encode-region causes completion
> inconvenience.  I am accustomed to typing base SPC dec RET
> and now it does not work.
> 
> That name seems strange anyway.

It's the official name of that encoding:

  https://base64.guru/standards/base64url

> 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.

Any chance you could train yourself to type "M-x bas-d RET" instead?