From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
1104-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: Re: pasting a password
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:10:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhc67clqf.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i737529.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:07:42 -0500")
> I added a C-y binding to read-passwd. More complicated stuff, such as
> allowing mouse pastes, will have to wait for a isearch-like rewrite of
> read-passwd, as Stefan said.
How 'bout using a completely different approach: setup a display-table
so that all chars get displayed as *, or else (so that the prompt can
be displayed properly) use an after-change-function to add a `display'
(or composition) property.
I.e. use normal editing, and only cause the display to use *.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-16 6:01 pasting a password Chong Yidong
2008-11-16 8:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-16 16:08 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-16 19:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-16 20:55 ` jidanni
2008-11-16 21:07 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-16 23:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-11-16 23:37 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-16 22:25 ` Juri Linkov
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