From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pasting a password Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:42 -0500 Message-ID: <877i737529.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87ljvj75lt.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226869663 5573 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2008 21:07:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, 1104-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 22:08:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L1orL-0006PI-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:08:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1oqC-00052X-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1oq9-00052S-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1oq7-00052G-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36644 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1oq7-00052D-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:44350) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1oq7-0004WF-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2BB8E57E1C8; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:42 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87ljvj75lt.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:55:58 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105726 Archived-At: 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.)