From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Hiding passords in authinfo (was: Automatic minor modes?) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:23:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bmelj0p4.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87vacthkpc.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <1sctj9q1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <3ea6abeb-49c6-81b1-5cf2-ec9abf14fcf6@gmail.com> <866fec51-cd9b-7bbf-9e31-b71bf9786efc@gmail.com> <1s91z1rs.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83sh18twoe.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539541328 8275 195.159.176.226 (14 Oct 2018 18:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 18:22:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 14 20:22:04 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 1gBl1e-00022D-O4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49182 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBl3l-0004Jq-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBl3f-0004Jl-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBl3Y-0001Fv-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:36517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBl3Y-0001Eq-PO; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w9EINw5N025785; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DDE1969476; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:23:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 14 Oct 2018 15:48:22 +0000") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6394=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6394> : inlines <6930> : streams <1801308> : uri <2730313> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:230386 Archived-At: > When I open a file such as authinfo.json.gpg, the passwords are clearly > visible to anyone that can see my screen. I'd like to hide them > visually. I'd recommend to do this via jit-lock-register. > Ideally in a way that reveals them when I move inside them, > like `prettify-symbols-mode` does. Stefan suggested `reveal-mode` may be > the right place to do this work, so I investigated a little. No, I suggested reveal-mode might be the right thing to use to do that "reveal" part. reveal-mode doesn't deal with hiding, only with revealing. Stefan