From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76993 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vincent Bernat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: auth-source unnecessary prompting Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:18 +0100 Organization: One Piece Message-ID: References: <84oc67cl9v.fsf@aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298197919 25522 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 10:31:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:31:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25326@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 20 11:31:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6a2-00032q-EN for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6Za-0000tY-A8; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:31:26 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6ZX-0000tB-7R for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:31:23 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6ZW-0002H5-4X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:31:23 -0600 Original-Received: from bart.luffy.cx ([78.47.78.131]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr6ZV-0000dE-5K for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:21 +0100 Original-Received: by bart.luffy.cx (Postfix, from userid 65534) id CCBA71426C; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from neo.luffy.cx (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e35:8b01:4710:b9a8:3dbf:af05:a63]) by bart.luffy.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 796A114153 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by neo.luffy.cx (Postfix, from userid 500) id DDBE693; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:18 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <84oc67cl9v.fsf@aol.com> (nyc4bos@aol.com's message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:44:44 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-PGP-KeyID: 0xF22A794E X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5854 AF2B 65B2 0E96 2161 E32B 285B D7A1 F22A 794E X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76993 Archived-At: OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du dimanche 20 f=C3=A9vrier 2011, ve= rs 06:44, nyc4bos@aol.com disait=C2=A0: > I like the way that auth-sources is evolving and > would like to make a suggestion: > I think that it should not prompt for information > that was already defined. > In my `gnus-secondary-select-methods' I already > define (nnimap-server-port 993) so I rather not > see the prompt: > Enter port for nyc4bos@:(143 993 imap imaps 993) (TAB to see the > choices): > It should just honor its value (or at least be configurable to > do so). > I DON'T want this entry to be in a .authinfo.gpg file, EVER, so > this means I have to type 993 evry time when I already defined > it as such. I also share this opinion. Neither the server prompt, nor the port prompt is necessary. If possible, I would rather skip the proposition to save my credentials into authinfo/authinfo.gpg. --=20 #if 0 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c