From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change stars as read-hide-char
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:19:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0v581pz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmapnlxs.fsf@yandex.com> (Colin Baxter's message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:54:07 +0100")
Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
>>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
> >> My apologies for posting here, I can't get posting rights at
> >> gmane.emacs.help. My `return-confirmation' emails get bounced at
> >> that news-group.
> >>
> >> The development emacs-27 version recently changed the default
> >> character seen when entering a password from `.' to `*'. I want
> >> to get back to the old default, but
> >>
> >> (let (read-hide-char) "?.")
> >>
>
> > 'let' specifies a list of variable bindings, and you want the
> > character '.', not a string containing '?' and '.', so itʼs:
>
> > (let ((read-hide-char ?. )) (message "%c" read-hide-char))
>
> Unfortunately
>
> (let ((read-hide-char ?. ))
> (message "%c" read-hide-char))
>
> also doesn't work. It gives the error
>
> Wrong type argument: characterp, "?."
>
> as soon as I enter a password. The same error occurs if I use
> `emacs -q'. Could this be a bug?
Hmm. Could you show a full transcript of what youʼre doing? Donʼt
forget that the let-binding is only valid within the let, not for the
entire session. If you want it to valid all the time you'll need to do
(setq read-hide-char ?.)
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-30 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-30 7:23 Change stars as read-hide-char Colin Baxter
2018-07-30 8:01 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-30 8:54 ` Colin Baxter
2018-07-30 10:19 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-07-30 11:14 ` Colin Baxter
2018-07-30 13:30 ` Robert Pluim
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