From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: better than read-hide-char Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:10 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533003828 21818 195.159.176.226 (31 Jul 2018 02:23:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 02:23:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 04:23:44 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkKK8-0005aU-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 04:23:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkKMD-0007vz-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkKLX-0007vu-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkKLW-0007ea-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkKLW-0007eU-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fkKLW-0002D2-Ep; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:10 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:228028 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] How about a feature whereby instead of ******************* or ............. the password echoes as 012345678901234567890123456789... That way, you could tell how many characters you have successfully typed even when they are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 characters. That would help people notice some mistakes in long passwords. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)