From: Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 69237@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69237: 30.0.50; Toggle password visibility
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:08:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmr0gz4n.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86il2kpfi0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:48:07 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Hi Eli,
>> > I'm not sure TAB is the best candidate for this. I think it would be
>> > better to use some non-character key, like F9 or somesuch. And
>> > another one, for keyboards without function key.
>>
>> As usual, I don't care too much about this, so I'm OK with any
>> proposal. However, out of curiosity, what's wrong with TAB? I'm not
>> aware that any password contains it.
>
> Is it impossible for TAB to appear in a password?
Passwords are often entered in HTML pages with a special password field,
derived from text fields. On HTML pages, TAB is applied to jump to the
next text field or anchor. See
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabbing_navigation>. So I doubt that TABs
can be used in passwords.
See also the discussion in the sytemd issue
<https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/10100>, where Lennart
Poettering has said something similar about systemd-ask-password.
> If it is, the TAB is okay, and my only reservation about that is that
> TAB is not generally interpreted in my mental model of "advanced"
> input patterns as something that hides/shows stuff. TAB is more about
> completion and similar functionality. But that's me.
>
> Let's hear opinions from others.
Yep.
Best regards, Michael.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-16 13:33 bug#69237: 30.0.50; Toggle password visibility Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-18 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-18 20:04 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-19 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-19 15:54 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-19 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-19 17:08 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-02-22 22:30 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-02-23 15:43 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-23 16:56 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-02-25 9:11 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 10:50 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-02-25 11:25 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 13:34 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-02-25 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 14:38 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 14:48 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 15:27 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
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