GNU bug report logs - #6315
24.0.50; nothing about encryption in manuals, but in Dired

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 02:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>

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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: 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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