From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Whitfield Diffie'" <the.whitfield.diffie@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: how to customize `read-passwd' [was: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt]
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 11:07:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56703336BFC44E70AEFE1A16FB0DD7F0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOgUEJ+Shq8iJo9NBBk9owt6QX5CyXuOYd4vQu8=tpYtxkUCvw@mail.gmail.com>
> I am enclosing a related question I asked almost exactly
> two years ago in case the answer is equally simple
Please, in general, start a new thread for a new question.
> If I type (read-string "Prompt: ") I can line edit the typein with
> <crtl-a>, <ctrl-b>, <ctrl-k>, etc. If I type (read-passwd "Prompt: ")
> the only characters that are not merely absorbed into the string are
> <ctrl-u> and either of the delete-backwards characters.
> Does anyone know how to get the cursor to come out in the
> right place as I back up down the row of dots that
> read-passwd echoes?
What I advise is to look at the code defining `read-passwd', and define your
function similarly.
What you see there is that `read-key' is called and each key that is read is
handled with a case analysis. What you want is to add another case (or cases).
See how that code currently handles special lists of keys: `stop-keys' and
`rubout-keys'. More pertinent perhaps is the treatment of `C-y'.
HTH.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-08 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 15:25 Setting mark in minibuffer prompt Whitfield Diffie
2012-07-08 15:36 ` Fwd: " Whitfield Diffie
2012-07-08 16:15 ` Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-07-08 16:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-07-08 17:18 ` Whitfield Diffie
2012-07-08 20:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-07-08 17:06 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-08 17:54 ` Whitfield Diffie
2012-07-08 18:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-07-11 4:44 ` how to customize `read-passwd' [was: Setting mark in minibuffer prompt] Whitfield Diffie
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=56703336BFC44E70AEFE1A16FB0DD7F0@us.oracle.com \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=the.whitfield.diffie@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.