Re: mode-line icon for encrypted file

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    >> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
    >> Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 08:00:45 +0100
    >> 
    >>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    > I believe the icon is there to allow the user to display the
    > password.  That capability is a standard part of modern UIs for
    > entering passwords and pass phrases, so I think it is a Good Thing
    > that Emacs provides that.  I won't object to be able to optionally
    > disable it, but I don't expect many people to want that, as it is
    > easy to make a typing mistake, what with today's stringent rules
    > for "valid" passwords, and making a mistake more than a couple of
    > times could lock the user out of whatever they want to
    > unlock/decrypt.

I have discovered I can't access that advantage of the icon. If I launch
emacs with -Q then putting the point over the icon and clicking does
indeed display the password en clair. However this is not the case when
I use my ~/.emacs. Then I get the error: 

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't expand minibuffer to full frame")
  (signal error ("Can't expand minibuffer to full frame"))
  (error "Can't expand minibuffer to full frame")

I don't yet know what is causing this error.

Colin.