[PATCH] * auth-source.el (auth-source-netrc-parse-one): Allow empty strings in authinfo file again (important for blank passwords). This had been broken with 2013-06-15 change.

[PATCH] * auth-source.el (auth-source-netrc-parse-one): Allow empty strings in authinfo file again (important for blank passwords). This had been broken with 2013-06-15 change.

[David Kastrup]

---
 lisp/gnus/ChangeLog      | 6 ++++++
 lisp/gnus/auth-source.el | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
index 2b1e1d8..c766488 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-07-05  David Kastrup  <dak@gnu.org>
+
+	* auth-source.el (auth-source-netrc-parse-one): Allow empty strings in
+	authinfo file again (important for blank passwords).  This had been
+	broken with 2013-06-15 change.
+
 2013-07-03  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>
 
 	* gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-from-or-to-or-newsgroups):
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el b/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
index 8cef741..54429b5 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/auth-source.el
@@ -1048,8 +1048,8 @@ Note that the MAX parameter is used so we can exit the parse early."
   "Read one thing from the current buffer."
   (auth-source-netrc-parse-next-interesting)
 
-  (when (or (looking-at "'\\([^']+\\)'")
-            (looking-at "\"\\([^\"]+\\)\"")
+  (when (or (looking-at "'\\([^']*\\)'")
+            (looking-at "\"\\([^\"]*\\)\"")
             (looking-at "\\([^ \t\n]+\\)"))
     (forward-char (length (match-string 0)))
     (auth-source-netrc-parse-next-interesting)
-- 
1.8.1.2

Re: [PATCH] * auth-source.el (auth-source-netrc-parse-one): Allow empty strings in authinfo file again (important for blank passwords). This had been broken with 2013-06-15 change.

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri,  5 Jul 2013 12:18:51 +0200 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote: 

DK> +	* auth-source.el (auth-source-netrc-parse-one): Allow empty strings in
DK> +	authinfo file again (important for blank passwords).  This had been
DK> +	broken with 2013-06-15 change.

Applied in Gnus master, thank you.  Should be synced to Emacs soon.

Ted