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24.0.50; nothing about encryption in manuals, but in Dired

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.0.50; nothing about encryption in manuals, but in Dired
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 18:59:27 -0700

emacs -Q
 
In Dired, Operate menu, I see these items:
 
Encrypt, Sign, Verify, Decrypt
 
But `i' in the Emacs manual and the Elisp manual finds nothing for
"encrypt".  Searching for "encrypt" doesn't help with this.
 
Presumably, this is something fairly important.  Shouldn't it be
mentioned in the manual?  We cover things like compression (e.g. in node
`Operating on Files').  Seems like encryption should be covered too.
 

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-05-23 on G41R2F1
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'
 

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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 6315 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6315: 24.0.50;
	nothing about encryption in manuals, but in Dired
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 16:06:00 +0900

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> In Dired, Operate menu, I see these items:
>  
> Encrypt, Sign, Verify, Decrypt
>  
> But `i' in the Emacs manual and the Elisp manual finds nothing for
> "encrypt".  Searching for "encrypt" doesn't help with this.
>  
> Presumably, this is something fairly important.  Shouldn't it be
> mentioned in the manual?  We cover things like compression (e.g. in node
> `Operating on Files').  Seems like encryption should be covered too.

Agreed.  Would you be interested in adding documentation?

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Daiki Ueno'" <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
Cc: 6315 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#6315: 24.0.50;
	nothing about encryption in manuals, but in Dired
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 06:14:38 -0700

> Agreed.  Would you be interested in adding documentation?

Sorry. I know nothing about it. I was hoping to learn what it is and how to use
it - at least an overview to give users an idea.

Message #16 received at 6315-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 6315-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6315: 24.0.50;
	nothing about encryption in manuals, but in Dired
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:22:33 +0900

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> Agreed.  Would you be interested in adding documentation?
>
> Sorry. I know nothing about it. I was hoping to learn what it is and
> how to use it - at least an overview to give users an idea.

Ok, done in r100490.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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