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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 30186@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#30186: 27.0.50; Password is not hidden in read-passwd
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:00:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180126200027.GB5056@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831sicl9p3.fsf@gnu.org>

Good evening, Eli.

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 21:08:24 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:37:02 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > Cc: 30186@debbugs.gnu.org

> > The problem here appears to be a fundamental design bug in Emacs: that
> > text properties are regarded as part of the buffer rather than something
> > accompanying the buffer, as overlays are.

> It's not a bug, it's a feature (and a very important one).

Yes.  We see its utility in read-passwd.  But don't worry, I wasn't
proposing to "fix" it.  :-)

Do you have any opinion on my suggestion:

> > Perhaps an alternative would be for Emacs to provide a flag which
> > indicates to a before/after-change-function whether the current
> > change is a "proper" change or merely a text property change.
> > Change hook functions could then test this flag and, for example,
> > refrain from doing anything for a text property change.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-26 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-20 21:29 bug#30186: 27.0.50; Password is not hidden in read-passwd Juri Linkov
2018-01-21 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-21 21:19   ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-22 18:27     ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-22 18:45       ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-22 21:38         ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-23 21:38           ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-25 17:39             ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-25 21:15               ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-26 18:37                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-26 19:08                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-26 20:00                     ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2018-01-27  9:40                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-27 11:37                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-27 12:23                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-27 13:38                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-27 21:43                               ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-27 22:10                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-27  8:27                   ` martin rudalics
2018-01-27  9:21                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-30  8:30                       ` martin rudalics
2018-01-22  1:53 ` Glenn Morris

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