Re: Re: Way kewl new bug reportin thingy for 31337 XEmacs h4x0r d00dz
Charles G Waldman writes:
Peter Brown writes:
>
> did you see my suggestion ???
> basically dont include the lines with passwords on them
I don't think this is possible. It's more complicated than
"grep -v password .emacs" I don't know how you can parse a .emacs
file and hope to determine what is and what is not a password.
What if I have
(setq carbuncle "my-super-secret-password")
...
(set vm-spool-files
(format "foo:110:pass:me:%s"
carbuncle))
In fact, I believe that since .emacs can contain any valid Lisp
expression, the problem of determining what is and is not a password
is equivalent to solving the Halting problem....
good point
im more a perl hacker than a lisp hacker so i respect your greater knowledge
i agree, it would be a nightmare in those cases
thanks for the impromptu lisp lesson btw :)
Let's err on the side of caution and just not include the .emacs
file,
OK?
yep im with you
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