GNU bug report logs - #57856
28.2; bookmark context strings in encrypted files

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Message #39 received at 57856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016 <at> gmail.com>, 57856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57856: 28.2; bookmark context strings in encrypted files
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:03:02 +0200

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Thinking further about, there are also other files which shouldn't
> expose snippets to bookmarks. Think about .authinfo / .netrc (more
> general, all files used as auth-sources backend). And perhaps other
> files.
>
> Wouldn't it be better, if packages like Tramp, epa, auth-sources, you
> name it, could mark files to be excluded from bookmark-make-record? For
> example, a hook a package could contribute to. In Tramp, we would run
>
> (add-hook 'bookmark-inhibit-bookmark-hook #'tramp-crypt-file-name-p)

Yes, that's true, but we don't really have a way to define
auth-source-file-p except by heuristics -- a netrc file may be called
anything.

So I'm not sure how that'd look...

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