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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: charles@aurox.ch
Cc: 32917@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32917: 27.0.50; read-hide-char documentation
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 05:38:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lg7f3gb1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tvm4167f.fsf@aurox.ch> (charles@aurox.ch)

> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:47:32 +0200
> From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
> 
> Here's a suggested change for emacs-26:
> 
> diff --git a/src/minibuf.c b/src/minibuf.c
> index 691fad0..f1bde91 100644
> --- a/src/minibuf.c
> +++ b/src/minibuf.c
> @@ -2107,8 +2107,11 @@ properties.  */);
>  
>    DEFVAR_LISP ("read-hide-char", Vread_hide_char,
>  	       doc: /* Whether to hide input characters in noninteractive mode.
> -It must be a character, which will be used to mask the input
> -characters.  This variable should never be set globally.  */);
> +If non-nil, it must be a character, which will be used to mask the
> +input characters.  This variable should never be set globally.
> +
> +This variable also overrides the default character that `read-passwd'
> +uses to hide passwords.  */);

This is OK, thanks.  Please also add an index entry for read-hide-char
in the ELisp manual, where read-passwd is described, because every
variable mentioned in the manual must be indexed.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-03  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-02 19:47 bug#32917: 27.0.50; read-hide-char documentation Charles A. Roelli
2018-10-03  2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-10-03 18:08   ` Charles A. Roelli

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