Re: Modifying Emacs to use the Mac OS X Keychain Services

[Michael Albinus]

Ben Key <address@hidden> writes:

> Some information on the Keychain Services API can be found at the
> Keychain Services Tasks for Mac OS X page found at
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/keychainServConcepts/03tasks/tasks.
> html.  More detailed information can be found at the Keychain Services
> Reference page found at
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Reference/keychainservices/Reference/reference.
> html.

Thanks, I'll have a look on it.

> Once the functions are defined in C, we can later decide how to call
> them from Lisp.  We can decide to call them from secrets.el by having
> each of the functions use the following psudeo code
>
> (if (fboundp 'ns-{func})
>   call ns-{func}
> use dbus)

What about when there will be a Secrets Services API implementation on
OS X?

> Perhaps I should just focus on writing the ns- equivalents of each of
> the secrets.el functions and we can decide later how to call them. 
> What do you think?

Yes, that might be a starting point.