Re: mode-line icon for encrypted file

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

    >> >> I have discovered I can't access that advantage of the
    >> icon. If I >> launch emacs with -Q then putting the point over
    >> the icon and >> clicking does indeed display the password en
    >> clair. However this >> is not the case when I use my
    >> ~/.emacs. Then I get the error: >> [...]  > AFAIU this should
    >> have been fixed by Stefan on master.  > Michael.  Yes, I can
    >> confirm that it is indeed fixed.

    > Hmm... funny: I didn't think your situation would be fixed by my
    > patch: I just found some loose ends while looking at the code to
    > try and understand what was going on.

    > In retrospect, I guess the problem was that the code used
    > `local-map` rather than `keymap` so its binding ended up with a
    > lower priority than the binding to `button-push`.

    > In any case, I'm glad it's fixed.

Thank you for working on this.

There's a nice hack that Michael Albinus set me, originally to hide the
icon, which, with v. slight modification can be used in a terminal:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(unless (display-graphic-p)
(with-eval-after-load 'auth-source
  (setcar (cdr (iconp 'read-passwd--show-password-icon)) '((text "O")))
;;; 'O' shows password
  (setcar (cdr (iconp 'read-passwd--hide-password-icon)) '((text "X")))))
;;; 'X' hides password
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This will be useful for me because I more often than not use emacs -nw.

Thanks again.

Colin.