Re: master 893111f 2/2: Hide passwords in .authinfo and .netrc files

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:

> larsi@gnus.org (Lars Ingebrigtsen) writes:
>
>> +      (while (re-search-forward "\\bpassword +\\([^\n\t ]+\\)"
>
> Would it make more sense to use '\s-' rather than '\b' here?  With '\b',
> it will match the ‘password’ in an entry like `gnus-canlock-password'
> and thus wrongly add the display property to the next word, in this case
> “password”, rather than to the actual password itself.

Good point.  I used \\b because I was thinking about whether "password"
could be the first token on a the line, but I've now changed the regexp
to be

"\\(\\s-\\|^\\)password\\s-+\\([^\n\t ]+\\)"

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