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: Re: better than read-hide-char Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:29:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533097629 19207 195.159.176.226 (1 Aug 2018 04:27:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 04:27:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 01 06:27:05 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 1fkij2-0004p3-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 06:27:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33340 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkil7-0008GX-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkil1-0008GS-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkil0-0003Ix-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkiky-0003G8-0C; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fkikx-0005FN-KI; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:29:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:47:56 -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:228071 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. ]]] I correct my previous suggestion. To make the echoed numbers match the last digit of the length thus far, they should start with 1. I like your idea too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)