Would it be possible to configure the mode to request vault pass when trying to decrypt a file?

If its not already supported, I can help to add this support. Please point me where to look (am n00b in both emacs-lisp and ansible) but happy to help!

Dear emacs-ansible maintainer,

Thank you for your work on this software! Would you please add a LICENSE/COPYING and then tag a stable release? For your convenience, here is a URL you can get a plain-text copy from: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

I plan on packaging your work for Debian :-)

Regards,
Nicholas

ansible-mode claims that ansible-related snippets are text-mode snippets. A ton of non-programming modes (such as html-mode) derive from text-mode. So ansible-related completions show up in completely non-ansible-related modes. These snippets should only show up in ansible mode.

Is there a plan to support ansible-lint by writing a checker for flycheck or the Emacs built in Flymake?

Though there is a flycheck-yamllint which uses yamllint to check YAML files. It is much better to have ansible-lint when writing ansible files.

https://github.com/k1LoW/emacs-ansible/blob/master/ansible.el#L133-L135

;;;###autoload
(eval-after-load 'yasnippet
  '(ansible::snippets-initialize))

The following line doesn't allow finer customization, instead it always loads the ansible snippets even if the user is not in a ansible minor mode. Is it possible to remove those lines so if yasnippet-global-mode is disabled and only loaded selectively per major mode then the ansible snippets won't be autoloaded with them?

If company-mode is enabled, https://github.com/k1LoW/emacs-ansible/blob/master/ansible.el#L140 will result in an error since ac-user-dictionary-files is not enabled. Would it be possible to add to company-mode's autocomplete if it's enabled?

When loading ansible.el 0.3.2 from Emacs 28.1, it complains:

ansible.el: Warning: 'return' is an obsolete alias (as of 27.1); use 'cl-return' instead.

this is a valid site.yml that looks kinda borked with ansible-mode:

- hosts: default
  gather_facts: no
  strategy: free
  roles: [ deploy ]

gather_facts and strategy cannot be used in roles, so they should be included to ansible::section-keywords-regex

P.S. same applies to connection keyword:

- hosts: db
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  roles:
    - deploy-db

Emacs 29.1

Bisected this behavior, where ansible package broke "output parsing" of compilation buffer output parsing for rust.

Ansible modifies/sets the following variable in "some way" that is breaks compilation parsing for other languages:

compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist is a variable defined in ‘compile.el’.

Its value is shown below.

Alist of values for ‘compilation-error-regexp-alist’.

Value:
((ansible "^\\(.*?\\):\\([0-9]+\\)" 1 2)        << Culprit

(use-package ansible
:init
(add-hook 'yaml-mode-hook '(lambda () (ansible 1))))
(use-package company-ansible)

Hello

I am using https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/vault/vault-keyring.py
thanks to ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE environment variable, but there are many other means to trigger it.

Instead of storing vault password in clear on disk, it is now requested from system keyring.

May you please adapt ansible::vault-password-file support so that it allows script execution, the same way ansible-vault does ?

Thank you in advance
Regards
Yves Martin

Most likely I'm not the only one confused by the (C++ namespace like) naming used in the codebase. See
https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-lisp-style-guide#naming

The version of this mode provided by MELPA Stable is now over three years old. MELPA Stable only packages versions that are tagged in Git. Are there any plans to tag a newer release?

ec2_instance_facts replaces ec2_remote_facts.

Hello,

Is this repo still maintained? There has been no update for 2 years. I'm not criticizing, just asking.

Do you accept potential new maintainers?

Arguably, when an encrypted file is visited and is decrypted, it's not really modified. Only when it's actually edited should it be marked modified.

When turning on ansible mode, the buffer doesn't automatically recolor based on the mode's fontification rules.

Workaround: Go to beginning of buffer, add a character then remove it, forcing a refontification.

I assume this traces down to a missing call to some well-known "refontify" method of Emacs, but don't have the ELisp-fu to prove it.
I would love to be pointed to the adequate method so I can create a PR.

In my local emacs dotfiles I have added some functions & hooks to:

• automatically decrypt ansible vault files when opening a vault file
• encrypting the file prior to save

Would you be interested in adding such functionality? If so, I would gladly issue a PR.

Thank you for the great work ;)

When loading ansible.el 0.3.2 from Emacs 28.1, it complains:

ansible.el: Warning: 'loop' is an obsolete alias (as of 27.1); use 'cl-loop' instead.

When looking for info on this mode from within Emacs the current URL isn't very helping:

Solution: use this repository url instead,

Due to a bug in Ansible under Python 3, ansible-vault fails to run when given the --vault-password-file parameter. I find the auto-decrypt-encrypt functionality very convenient, but given this Ansible bug it only decrypts; it never encrypts again. This is slightly dangerous, as you can imagine.

A workaround while waiting for the Ansible bug to be fixed is to remove the --vault-password-file argument from the command string in ansible.el:335. However, this could be done more generally: if ansible-vault-password-file is nil, there's no reason to supply that argument at all to the command, and let Ansible try to figure it all out through the environment.

The way I've phrased it makes it sound like it's only good for working around a highly specific Ansible bug, but the reason I propose it is because it sounds like something that might make sense generally as well.

If this is acceptable, I can submit a PR.

is there a specific reason this is defined as ansible rather than ansible-mode?

adding the -mode suffix enables it to be used by other modes that assume standard naming (for example ansbile src blocks in org-mode via ob-ansible)

When loading ansible.el 0.3.2 from Emacs 28.1, it complains:

ansible.el: Warning: 'incf' is an obsolete alias (as of 27.1); use 'cl-incf' instead.

This will remove the need to hardcode completions and update on every version.