Re: flag to use tor

[Jean Louis]

* Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> [2020-11-17 08:14]:
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> Many Emacs commands connect to internet sites for various reasons.
> vc does so, M-x irc does so, and I don't know how much else.
> 
> I want to connect through Tor all the time, but sometimes these
> commands betray me.  I added a switch to VC to make it connect
> through Tor always, but it would be good to have a facility that
> would do this to all internet connections that Emacs packages make.

Good way to go is to launch Emacs by using `torify' command:

$ torify emacs

torify is now just a wrapper around torsocks(1) for backwards compatibility.
Usage: /usr/bin/torify [-hv] <command> [<options>...]

It then makes sure (but not sure how sure) that Internet that uses
that command goes over Tor.

> A super-simple approach is to have a switch with two settings: Tor, or
> not Tor.  A more complex feature would give a systematic way to
> specify exceptions.

It would be good to have option in Emacs that enables torsocks for any
Internet operation, something like torsocks-mode.