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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: auth-source backend stuff
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:55:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737w0atwb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737w0psm7.fsf@lifelogs.com>

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:06:47 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: 
>
> EA> I see that auth-source.el is written to provide backend subclassing, but
> EA> I've found the system as a whole a bit confusing to grasp. I've got a
> EA> couple of questions I'm hoping someone can provide pointers for.
>
> I wrote docs for it here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/143198/focus=144282 but the
> demand hasn't been high for custom backends.
>
> I think the :create stuff is what confuses people the most.

Thanks for this! It was also enough to clue me in to the fact that
auth-source has its own info manual, which I hadn't realized. Between
the various explanations I ought to be able to make this work.

Thanks!
Eric




  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-21  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-17  5:06 Eric Abrahamsen
2015-11-17 18:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-11-19  8:37   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-11-18  5:38 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-18  5:40 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-20 16:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-21  3:55   ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2015-11-23 15:43     ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-24  6:05       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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