From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: schwab@suse.de, 1104-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pasting a password
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i737529.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljvj75lt.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:55:58 +0800")
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> Regarding those mile long one-time passwords that we are supposed to
> paste into our browsers, etc.:
>
> Some people also wish to paste the password into the box with the
> mouse too (middle button). Therefore please roll back all that extra
> security, and just do the plain echo asterisks, like firefox or
> whatever.
>
> Speaking about M-y. I am a old dog who still types ESC instead of
> Meta-key for the M- stuff -- never learned new tricks.
I added a C-y binding to read-passwd. More complicated stuff, such as
allowing mouse pastes, will have to wait for a isearch-like rewrite of
read-passwd, as Stefan said.
(Also, we should probably document the keybindings that can be used to
enter passwords into the Emacs manual. I'll add a new node for it.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-16 6:01 pasting a password Chong Yidong
2008-11-16 8:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-16 16:08 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-16 19:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-16 20:55 ` jidanni
2008-11-16 21:07 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-11-16 23:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-16 23:37 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-16 22:25 ` Juri Linkov
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