Re: ERC do not use my password from authinfo

"J.P." <[email protected]> Sun, 26 May 2024 21:15:45 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.erc.general,gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sébastien Gendre <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I modified my ~/.authconfig.gpg file to add the IRC server port in the
> entry for my password and then restart Emacs. Since this, it work.

That's interesting, thanks. Someone else recently reported failed
lookups (with a different backend) when a stored entry lacks a port
field. Sadly, they couldn't provide an exact recipe.

> So, for a reason I ignore, Emacs was not reading ~/authinfo.gpg and
> I cannot reproduce it.

If you do come up with a way to reliably reproduce this, please open a
bug report with M-x erc-bug RET.