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Re: existing work on TODO items
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Ken Manheimer |
Subject: |
Re: existing work on TODO items |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:53:34 -0500 |
On 1/12/06, Dave Love <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ken Manheimer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > the TODO item describes something that will provide
> > encryption/decryption at the granularity of the entire file. i
> > already had that (in the form of an addon elisp package, i think it's
> > crypt++),
>
> Maybe you did, but most of us didn't. Crypt++ will _not_ handle file
> encoding issues correctly (amongst other things). Regardless of naïve
> attitudes about it, most of us don't live in an ASCII world. [Also
> compare the extent of the changes to generalize jka-compr with
> crypt++.el]
I did not mean to suggest that we don't need standard whole-file
encryption, but the capability that allout intends to provide is
different. If the implementation is flawed, I would like to fix it.
> > but i am finding allout's easy articulation of encrypted
> > _portions_ of a file, in the form of encrypted topics, to be as useful
> > as i hoped - way way more useful for the kinds of things i need.
>
> Presumably it would be equally useful in Org mode, for instance.
> However, _what's installed just doesn't work_ as far as I can tell.
> If the example didn't get through, I'll send it again.
Ah, I see the example now.
I'll reply in that message.
> (I wrote the whole-file support for sharing files of password lists &c
> using public keys in a foolproof way that didn't require everyone use
> Emacs. If I wanted multi-part data in the same file, I'd probably use
> MIME, which provides encoding information as well as potentially
> associating it with public keys via a recipients list. In fact, I
> originally just used encrypted articles in Gnus. I don't want to
> dictate how people work, but I don't want users to be screwed by not
> being able to recover their non-ASCII text, for instance.)
Thanks.
> By the way, check out
> <URL:http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/autocap.el>.
Ah.
ken
address@hidden
Re: existing work on TODO items, Ken Manheimer, 2006/01/09
Re: existing work on TODO items, Dave Love, 2006/01/08
- Re: existing work on TODO items, Ken Manheimer, 2006/01/08
- Key sequences reserved for users used in allout.el (was: existing work on TODO items), Reiner Steib, 2006/01/09
- Re: existing work on TODO items, Dave Love, 2006/01/09
- Re: existing work on TODO items, Ken Manheimer, 2006/01/12
- Re: existing work on TODO items, Stefan Monnier, 2006/01/12
- Re: existing work on TODO items, Dave Love, 2006/01/15