Re: passwords not visible in symmetric encryption

[Colin Baxter]

Dear Jamie,

>>>>> Jamie Beardslee <jdb@jamzattack.xyz> writes:

Thanks. I've just found the item in Emacs News - you beat me to it. I
think I'll leave the authinfo-hidden variable unchanged at "password"
and just un-hide my authinfo.gpg file.

    > From the docstring of the variable `authinfo-hidden': | Regexp
    > matching elements in .authinfo/.netrc files that should be hidden.
    > | 
    > | This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs
    > 27.1.

    > If you don't want the passwords to be hidden, set that to nil.

    > If you _do_ want the passwords to be hidden, you need to make sure
    > the file is opened in `authinfo-mode' with a magic comment like
    > this: | # -*- mode: authinfo;-*-

That's good to know

Thanks again for your help.

Best wishes,

Colin.