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* emacs paste password, only pastes one character
@ 2012-10-12  2:29 John Owens
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From: John Owens @ 2012-10-12  2:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

OS X 10.8.2, GNU Emacs 24.2.1. 

I read my email in Emacs using the "wanderlust" mailer. I store
passwords in 1Password, and would like to use the "copy" button in
1Password to put the (~20-character) stored password into the
clipboard, then paste it into the request for a password in Emacs. I
have confirmed the clipboard is doing the right thing. However, when I
C-y yank the password from the clipboard into Emacs, it only pastes a
single character. This is annoying; I'd like it to paste the entire
clipboard.

The function that accepts the password is elmo-read-passwd,
http://pastebin.com/3xYGQU5L .

Happy to get any thoughts on how to trick emacs into accepting the
entire password!

JDO





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* Re: emacs paste password, only pastes one character
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@ 2012-10-12 22:29 ` B. T. Raven
  2012-10-12 22:43   ` B. T. Raven
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2012-10-12 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Die Thu Oct 11 2012 21:29:52 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) John Owens
<john_owens@yahoo.com> scripsit:

> OS X 10.8.2, GNU Emacs 24.2.1. 
> 
> I read my email in Emacs using the "wanderlust" mailer. I store
> passwords in 1Password, and would like to use the "copy" button in
> 1Password to put the (~20-character) stored password into the
> clipboard, then paste it into the request for a password in Emacs. I
> have confirmed the clipboard is doing the right thing. However, when I
> C-y yank the password from the clipboard into Emacs, it only pastes a
> single character. This is annoying; I'd like it to paste the entire
> clipboard.
> 
> The function that accepts the password is elmo-read-passwd,
> http://pastebin.com/3xYGQU5L .

Does the password ever get longer than one character? The end of the
(while ....) form always truncates the rightmost character.

If that's not the answer, then look at
"
(set-clipboard-coding-system CODING-SYSTEM)

Make CODING-SYSTEM used for communicating with other X clients.
When sending or receiving text via cut_buffer, selection
"

I learned here that that variable should not be utf-8 in w32. I don't
know what it should be under OS-X.

Ed
> 
> Happy to get any thoughts on how to trick emacs into accepting the
> entire password!
> 
> JDO
> 
> 
> 



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* Re: emacs paste password, only pastes one character
  2012-10-12 22:29 ` B. T. Raven
@ 2012-10-12 22:43   ` B. T. Raven
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: B. T. Raven @ 2012-10-12 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Die Fri Oct 12 2012 17:29:03 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) B. T.
Raven <btraven@nihilo.net> scripsit:

> Die Thu Oct 11 2012 21:29:52 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) John Owens
> <john_owens@yahoo.com> scripsit:
> 
>> OS X 10.8.2, GNU Emacs 24.2.1. 
>>
>> I read my email in Emacs using the "wanderlust" mailer. I store
>> passwords in 1Password, and would like to use the "copy" button in
>> 1Password to put the (~20-character) stored password into the
>> clipboard, then paste it into the request for a password in Emacs. I
>> have confirmed the clipboard is doing the right thing. However, when I
>> C-y yank the password from the clipboard into Emacs, it only pastes a
>> single character. This is annoying; I'd like it to paste the entire
>> clipboard.
>>
>> The function that accepts the password is elmo-read-passwd,
>> http://pastebin.com/3xYGQU5L .
> 
> Does the password ever get longer than one character? The end of the
> (while ....) form always truncates the rightmost character.


Oops! That's in the (cond ...) form, just stripping off final control
char (\r \n \e or \b).
> 
> If that's not the answer, then look at
> "
> (set-clipboard-coding-system CODING-SYSTEM)
> 
> Make CODING-SYSTEM used for communicating with other X clients.
> When sending or receiving text via cut_buffer, selection
> "
> 
> I learned here that that variable should not be utf-8 in w32. I don't
> know what it should be under OS-X.
> 
> Ed
>>
>> Happy to get any thoughts on how to trick emacs into accepting the
>> entire password!
>>
>> JDO
>>
>>
>>
> 



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