[Erc-help] Re: ERC could take advantage of .authinfo/.netrc

[Michael O. <mw...@gn...>]

tc...@fr... (Tobias C. Rittweiler) writes:

> Hi ERC-hackers,
>
> my concern is how to conventienly avoid having to set `erc-password'
> in my .emacs. I figured, I could use a `.ercrc.el' file for that,
> but how about using `.authinfo' resp. `.netrc' for it? (parsing
> facilities are nicely provided in `netrc.el' by Gnus, so from a
> technical point of view, it shouldn't be all that hard.) What do you
> think? Useful? Abusion?

What I do is put the following in my .emacs:

;; Load authentication info from an external source
(load "~/.emacs.d/.erc-auth")

The file called ~/.emacs.d/.erc-auth contains something like the
following:

;;; Variables
(setq erc-password "mypassword")

;;Local variables:
;;mode: emacs-lisp
;;End:

I did a chmod 600 on it to make it private.  This is probably a bit
like your .ercrc.el idea.

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