GNU bug report logs - #38053
27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 03:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 38053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 38053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:47:59 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> 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?
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