From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22081: 24.5; netrc.el fails parsing authinfo items spread over multiple lines Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:14:13 +0000 Message-ID: <86d1uiqrbe.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fuzjvdp5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fuzjvdp5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8737vgwjf9.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449497783 1772 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2015 14:16:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:16:23 +0000 (UTC) To: 22081@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 07 15:16:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a5waJ-0005O9-Nk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:16:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5waJ-0007q9-26 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5waF-0007pz-DZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5waA-0000Vg-Bd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5waA-0000Vc-8W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wa9-0003h6-O5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:16:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Andy Moreton Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:16:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22081 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.144949771614120 (code B ref -1); Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:16:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Dec 2015 14:15:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41471 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wZP-0003fg-G7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:15:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43331) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wZ5-0003ej-8f for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:15:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wZ4-0000Fr-5O for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:14:55 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:45172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wZ4-0000Fn-2S for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wZ0-0007Wl-1z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wYp-0000Dd-N3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wYp-0000DV-GD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:14:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a5wYl-0002hP-Dz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:14:35 +0100 Original-Received: from 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.64.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:14:35 +0100 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:14:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WytRl4tt6EgaNujmyz/xFA0NbcM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:109706 Archived-At: On Sat 05 Dec 2015, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 14:25:00 +0000 Andy Moreton wrote: > My more important point was that there's no standard (or library) for > parsing netrc files. In particular, quoting is not specified as I > mentioned. The BSD spec is ambiguous and allowing multi-line entries > would not serve any practical purpose. The spec clearly defines that tokens are separated with SPACE TAB or NEWLINE, which seems unambiguous to me. Multi-line entries are an inherent part of the file format, and are useful for readable layout. For an example, see: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s03.html It's perfectly ok to parse an extended version of the file format which allows for quoting and escaping mechanisms, but not if it is done is a way which is incompatible with reasonable and well formed existing files. Disallowing NEWLINE as a token separator means you are not parsing an extension of the existing format, but something incompatible with it. That's fine as it offers useful features, but it should use a different file name to make it clear that it is not the same format. AndyM