Re: auth-source.el API change: Gnus and Emacs sync

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:05:35 +0100 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote: 

MA> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
TZ> How about this:
>> 
TZ> (setq auth-info
TZ> (tramp-compat-funcall
TZ> 'auth-source-search
TZ> :max 1
TZ> :user (or tramp-current-user t)
TZ> :host tramp-current-host
TZ> :port tramp-current-method))
>> 
TZ> That will match any user if tramp-current-user is nil.
>> 
>> Michael, I'll wait for your reply before comitting my patch in Emacs.
>> The backwards compatible wrapper of `auth-source-user-or-password'
>> should be OK until then.

MA> Sorry, I have overlooked your previous message. The patch looks OK.

I comitted my patch with some fixes, including tramp.el.  Until Katsumi
Yamaoka merges the Gnus changes, the trunk will be broken because
auth-source.el hasn't been updated from the Gnus trunk.  If that's a
problem, revert 103234.

I put a lot of work into the `auth-source-search' docstring and would
like to know if there's an easy way to carry that into auth.texi.
Otherwise I'll be duplicating the text.  For now I left it as a TODO.

Thanks
Ted