bug#66241: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Use auth-info-mode for non-hidden authinfo and netrc files

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 at 19:34, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> See patch for the rationale.
>
> Thanks.  Could you explain why you think that this should this be the
> default value, instead of merely a user customization?

The user customization is indeed rather easy: one can add a "-*- mode:"
comment at the top of the file.  The main issue with that is that the
user needs to be aware of the existence of the mode.  I wasn't, until
recently.

The second point is, I see no potential for false-positives, i.e., who
would have a file name "authinfo" or "netrc" that is not a credentials
file?  (Of course this is just a theory which can be disputed.)

>>>From dc0abaff3dcaf9c7f48a8cd18dd045ae4323a030 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:35:32 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] Use auth-info-mode for non-hidden authinfo and netrc files
>>
>> * files.el (auto-mode-alist): Match non-hidden authinfo and netrc
>> files, since it is reasonable to store passwords in
>> ~/.emacs.d/authinfo.gpg or a similarly named file.
>> ---
>>  lisp/files.el | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
>> index b67482a2f74..f2980de4810 100644
>> --- a/lisp/files.el
>> +++ b/lisp/files.el
>> @@ -3038,7 +3038,7 @@ auto-mode-alist
>>       ("\\.docbook\\'" . sgml-mode)
>>       ("\\.com\\'" . dcl-mode)
>>       ("/config\\.\\(?:bat\\|log\\)\\'" . fundamental-mode)
>> -     ("/\\.\\(authinfo\\|netrc\\)\\'" . authinfo-mode)
>> +     ("/\\.?\\(authinfo\\|netrc\\)\\'" . authinfo-mode)
>>       ;; Windows candidates may be opened case sensitively on Unix
>>       
>> ("\\.\\(?:[iI][nN][iI]\\|[lL][sS][tT]\\|[rR][eE][gG]\\|[sS][yY][sS]\\)\\'" . 
>> conf-mode)
>>       ("\\.la\\'" . conf-unix-mode)