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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: passwords not visible in symmetric encryption
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:21:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9ha4y00.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mu2mc26v.fsf@jamzattack.xyz

Dear Jamie,

>>>>> Jamie Beardslee <jdb@jamzattack.xyz> writes:

Thanks. I've just found the item in Emacs News - you beat me to it. I
think I'll leave the authinfo-hidden variable unchanged at "password"
and just un-hide my authinfo.gpg file.

    > From the docstring of the variable `authinfo-hidden': | Regexp
    > matching elements in .authinfo/.netrc files that should be hidden.
    > | 
    > | This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs
    > 27.1.

    > If you don't want the passwords to be hidden, set that to nil.

    > If you _do_ want the passwords to be hidden, you need to make sure
    > the file is opened in `authinfo-mode' with a magic comment like
    > this: | # -*- mode: authinfo;-*-

That's good to know

Thanks again for your help.

Best wishes,

Colin.




      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-22 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-22 11:50 passwords not visible in symmetric encryption Colin Baxter
2020-08-22 12:09 ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-08-22 13:21   ` Colin Baxter [this message]

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