From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change stars as read-hide-char
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:01:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8kh884v.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu01nq46.fsf@yandex.com> (Colin Baxter's message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:23:53 +0100")
Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> 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.
>
> 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
>
> (let (read-hide-char) "?.")
>
'let' specifies a list of variable bindings, and you want the
character '.', not a string containing '?' and '.', so itʼs:
(let ((read-hide-char ?. ))
(message "%c" read-hide-char))
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-30 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-30 7:23 Change stars as read-hide-char Colin Baxter
2018-07-30 8:01 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-07-30 8:54 ` Colin Baxter
2018-07-30 10:19 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-30 11:14 ` Colin Baxter
2018-07-30 13:30 ` Robert Pluim
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