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[PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use
From: |
Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
[PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Dec 2023 13:02:16 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
What do people think of the attached behavior change?
Summary: after the user is prompted about whether to accept a
remote cert, the buffer(s) with information about the cert should
stay around, instead of being killed like they currently are.
Request: I'd like to know if people agree with the overall goal
here. I'm still testing the change (I need to learn something new
in order to test it -- namely, how to artifically "forget" a cert
so that I get re-prompted again, and if anyone has tips on that,
I'm all ears).
Motivation:
Recently I was sending an email from Emacs on a new machine, and I
got prompted about whether to accept the remote SMTP server's
cert. The prompt function is `nsm-query-user', and its manner of
prompting didn't allow me to easily leave the minibuffer to go
into the "*Network Security Manager*" buffer and grab the cert
info so that I could save it to inspect further later on (maybe
there was something I could have done with a recursive edit, but I
didn't want to break my flow that much).
So after accepting the cert, I tried to go back to the "*Network
Security Manager*" buffer to get the remote server fingerprint --
but alas, the buffer was gone.
Hence this change: make it so that that buffer (and another
related cert-specific buffer) stay around after the user has been
prompted, in case the user wants to go back and get the
information in them.
I'm not sure whether just eliminating the calls to `kill-buffer'
is enough. Maybe they should be replaced with `bury-buffer'
calls, to make sure that those buffers aren't in the user's face?
As I said above, I'm still testing. I'd just like to know if we
agree with the goal of this change. I won't push it to master
until a) I know we agree on the goal, and b) it's fully tested.
Best regards,
-Karl
0001-Keep-network-security-info-buffers-after-use.patch
Description: Keep network security info buffers after use
- [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use,
Karl Fogel <=
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/12/17
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Karl Fogel, 2023/12/17
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/12/18
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Karl Fogel, 2023/12/18
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, tomas, 2023/12/19
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/12/19
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, tomas, 2023/12/19
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/12/19
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Andreas Schwab, 2023/12/20
- Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/12/21