Re: keyring support

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier Maillard <address@hidden> writes:

[ keyring.el ]

Xavier> I have already seen something like that recently on the sources
Xavier> mailing-list. Initially it is sort of a frontend to various
Xavier> keyring software. Maybe you could try to hack a new backend on
Xavier> top of it ?

Yeah, there was a different keyring.el a while back.  I looked at it
briefly, it seemed to be about managing a keyring for your Palm or
something -- it appeared to have a mode for editing a list of
passwords.

I wanted something a bit different; namely, I wanted code in Emacs
that would remember my various passwords for tramp, for TLS, etc.
Ideally I would enter a single password to unlock my keyring and then
various Emacs packages would know what password to use (assuming I'd
ever entered it) without my intervention.  I don't think the old
keyring.el did that.

Anyway, converting various Emacs packages looks like a fair amount of
work.  So I thought I'd see what other folks think before attempting
it.  So far the results aren't encouraging :}

Tom