From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: better than read-hide-char
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:08:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324f090-d53f-4e0e-81a8-ec86c23f9422@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmin4vvpny.fsf@suse.de>
> > How about a feature whereby instead of ******************* or .............
> > the password echoes as 012345678901234567890123456789...
> > That way, you could tell how many characters you have successfully typed
> > even when they are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 characters.
> > That would help people notice some mistakes in long passwords.
Sounds good to me. But maybe can see a downside?
> Another feature would be to temporarily unhide the input.
A user deserves feedback for whether a key actually was depressed sufficiently, i.e., whether Emacs received it. That's the reason for showing *** or ....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-31 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-31 2:25 better than read-hide-char Richard Stallman
2018-07-31 7:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-31 15:08 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-07-31 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-31 15:41 ` Drew Adams
2018-08-01 4:31 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-31 9:25 ` Simon Leinen
2018-07-31 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-01 4:29 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-01 15:48 ` Davis Herring
2018-08-01 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-02 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2018-07-31 16:10 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-07-31 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-01 14:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-01 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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