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bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:34:53 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> (case r
> ('secret "%p password for user %u, host %h: ")
> ('user "%p user name: ")
> ('host "%p host name for user %u: ")
> ('port "%p port for user %u and host %h: "))
> (format "Enter %s (%%u@%%h:%%p): " r)))
> Can you please propose specific replacements?
(case r
(secret "%p password for %u@%h: ")
(user "%p user name for %h: ")
(host "%p host name for user %u: ")
(port "%p port for %u@%h: "))
(format "Enter %s (%%u@%%h:%%p): " r)))
Notes:
- I added the host name to the user prompt (usually the user name
may be different in different hosts for the same user, so most such
prompts do include a hostname/realm).
- I left the user name in the host prompt, even though that sounds
backward to me (kind of like choosing the street number before the
street name).
- I removed the quotes which just made each of the branches be
acceptable when `r' has value `quote'.
> I'll put something in. This makes sense but is extra work for the
> auth-source API users, unfortunately.
I know, but the difference in user experience is enormous.
>>> I'm not sure about that one, I'm just using `read-passwd'.
SM> No, you misread: I'm talking about the prompt to save the password
SM> (i.e. the one with y/n/N/e/?), not the prompt to read the password.
> It uses:
> (while (not done)
> (message "%s" prompt)
> (setq k (read-char))
> ...)
And that leads to an absence of cursor in the minibuffer, even though
it's fundamentally a prompt. Why not copy y-or-n-p from subr.el as
a starting point?
If you can factor out the commonality, I'd be happy to provide
a "prompt-maker" function and then define y-or-n-p in terms of that
prompt-maker.
SM> Two things:
SM> 1- then make it look nice, like "Saved password for foo@bar into <file>".
SM> The current text really looks like debug output.
> All the output from auth-source starts with the function name.
I call that debug output and is not OK for normal messages.
> The line you mention can be put in the background in favor of the
> output you specified. But, again, auth-source does NOT just save
> passwords, and there's no guarantee that a host or a port were
> specified. So the message will look different.
The case where a user and host were specified is likely to be the main
one for most users, so it's worth handling it specially.
SM> 2- I just replied "n" before, so I did *not* want it saved (tho I do
SM> want it saved for the session), so it is not a rare event at all.
> OK, I'll show it only when the data is saved.
Good, thank you.
Stefan
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/03/05
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/05
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/07
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/07
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more,
Stefan Monnier <=
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/08
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/09
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/09
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/09
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/09
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/11
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/12
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/14
Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08