From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: eli zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 32220@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32220: 27.0.50; Prefer ?* to hide passwords
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:31:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877elh76kz.fsf@calancha-pc.dy.bbexcite.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmb29vu0.fsf@calancha-pc.dy.bbexcite.jp> (Tino Calancha's message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:04:39 +0900")
Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> writes:
> commit 6b5c3db59650590d9db24ef110b972019b24e03a
> Author: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Jul 20 16:58:33 2018 +0900
>
> Prefer ?* to hide passwords
>
> It might be argued that a hidden string is more legible when using
> ?* as the hidden character instead of ?.
> For example, the following strings have the same length:
> "......"
>
> "******"
>
> It's slighly easier to visually count the number of characters in the second
> string (Bug#32220).
>
> * lisp/subr.el (read-passwd): Prefer ?* as default char instead of ?.
> * doc/lispref/minibuf.texi (Reading a Password): Update manual.
> ; * etc/NEWS (Changes in Emacs 27.1): Announce the change.
Eli, which branch is suitable for this patch? Next release or master?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-27 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-20 8:04 bug#32220: 27.0.50; Prefer ?* to hide passwords Tino Calancha
2018-07-20 12:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-27 2:31 ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2018-07-27 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-29 12:25 ` Tino Calancha
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