* password prompt in comint.el
@ 2002-04-17 9:49 Francesco Potorti`
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From: Francesco Potorti` @ 2002-04-17 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sometimes prompts for passwords begin with whitespace, which is annoying
and ugly when comint displays them in the minibuffer. This happens for
example with GPG.
The following patch addresses this problem. If it is okay, I can
install it.
--- comint.el.~1.269.~ Wed Apr 17 10:01:58 2002
+++ comint.el Wed Apr 17 11:45:29 2002
@@ -1984,6 +1984,8 @@ process if STRING contains a password pr
This function could be in the list `comint-output-filter-functions'."
(when (string-match comint-password-prompt-regexp string)
+ (when (string-match "^[ \n\r\t\v\f\b\a]+" string)
+ (setq string (replace-match "" t t string)))
(let ((pw (comint-read-noecho string t)))
(send-invisible pw))))
\f
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