Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:46:56 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> 
wrote: 

SM> - finally the real prompt for the password comes up (still looking
SM>   pretty ugly).  Will I ever get back a simple "Password for
SM>   monnier@diro: "?
SM> - then comes one more prompt to ask me if I want to save the password,
SM>   and this prompt is as long and ugly as last time, tho it at least
SM>   keeps the password hidden (but taking up space nonetheless).
SM>   The prompt I'd like here is just what we had ealier:
SM>   "Save password in .authinfo.gpg?".

SM> All those prompts are *long* which is *bad*.
SM> I know that nowadays Emacs can usually resize the minibuffer on the fly,
SM> but that's no reason to use long prompts which do nothing more than slow
SM> the user down trying to figure out what the hell he's supposed to do.

I think you'll be happier with the latest auth-source.el which is in the
Gnus trunk.  I don't know when it will be synchronized to the Emacs
trunk, sorry.

Ted