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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227980 Archived-At: Dear Robert, Thank you for your reply. >>>>> Robert Pluim writes: > Colin Baxter writes: >> My apologies for posting here, I can't get posting rights at >> gmane.emacs.help. My `return-confirmation' emails get bounced at >> that news-group. >>=20 >> The development emacs-27 version recently changed the default >> character seen when entering a password from `.' to `*'. I want >> to get back to the old default, but >>=20 >> (let (read-hide-char) "?.") >>=20 > 'let' specifies a list of variable bindings, and you want the > character '.', not a string containing '?' and '.', so it=CA=BCs: > (let ((read-hide-char ?. )) (message "%c" read-hide-char)) Unfortunately (let ((read-hide-char ?. )) (message "%c" read-hide-char)) also doesn't work. It gives the error Wrong type argument: characterp, "?." as soon as I enter a password. The same error occurs if I use `emacs -q'. Could this be a bug? Best wishes, Colin.