From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "12570@debbugs.gnu.org" <12570@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#12570: 24.2.50; C-u does not work in read-passwd
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:45:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tntfw5ve9g0.fsf@waterbuck.yellow.cert.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvehlfcvvq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:25:21 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> When read-passwd was changed in revision 107874
>> (monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20120411181320-zd3wwgbom1229q74) to use
>> read-string, it no longer allows C-u to reset the currently entered
>> string.
>
> You can use C-a C-k, instead, like in any other minibuffer.
If you truly think that this is TRT, so be it. I will adjust
(eventually). But it does sit uneasily in my mind. I can type C-u to
cancel typing in passwords for login shells, ssh-add, and just about any
other program that accepts a password. It feels odd to switch my
password typing habits just in Emacs. When I fumble-finger a password,
I barely pause in typing before typing C-u and continuing to type. The
change is consistent with the rest of Emacs, but I do not know that I
can declare it a wise consistency in this case.
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(mwd@cert.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-03 14:36 bug#12570: 24.2.50; C-u does not work in read-passwd Michael Welsh Duggan
2012-10-03 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 17:45 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2012-10-04 20:19 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-04 21:26 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2012-10-05 1:35 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-05 8:58 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2012-10-04 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-06 2:48 ` Glenn Morris
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