From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86309 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: auth-source backend stuff Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:01:36 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8737w0psm7.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87d1v9kye0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448035400 27998 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 16:03:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:03:20 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34541@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 20 17:03:07 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzo9S-0003hL-St for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:03:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzo8c-0002er-Ij; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:02:14 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzo8Z-0002eL-27 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:02:11 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzo8Y-0003mW-1B for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:02:10 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzo8W-0002vu-26 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:02:08 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzo8M-0001vM-A0 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:01:58 +0100 Original-Received: from 98.229.60.157 ([98.229.60.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 98.229.60.157 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:01:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.229.60.157 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F+MXuictOFAb4bvBpc+6DfmTFWU= X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86309 Archived-At: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:06:47 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen 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. Ted