From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 43003@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:53:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuwm95za.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu2evp51.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:08:58 +0200")
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:08:58 +0200 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>>>> + "\\(^ *\\|\\|"
>>
>> (It looks like Gnus removed the ^M characters.)
>
> Yeah, probably better to use \r instead of the ^M character directly.
Oh, yes, of course.
>> Yes, I just tested again and the password is indeed hidden only when
>> `\\|' follows `^M' in the regexp. Apparently I omitted that when I
>> made the diff for the patch after testing yesterday...
>
> That makes more sense. But I don't think having ^M as a password prompt
> regexp makes all that much sense, though -- surely there's no ^M
> involved in prompting on non-Windows systems,
except, apparently, on mine ;-)
> and there you'll surely
> find ^Ms all over the place, not just in password prompts?
True, I wasn't thinking about that. Then I guess it's best to leave
comint-password-prompt-regexp as is and I'll just change it locally.
The problem I have with it doesn't seem to be widespread, to say the
least. So feel free to close the bug.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-28 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-23 21:26 bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive Stephen Berman
2020-08-24 12:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-26 10:10 ` Stephen Berman
2020-08-27 13:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-27 15:09 ` Stephen Berman
2020-08-28 14:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-28 14:53 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2020-08-30 13:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-31 9:26 ` Stephen Berman
2020-08-31 10:11 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-31 12:05 ` Stephen Berman
2020-09-01 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-01 15:03 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-01 15:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-01 15:40 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-01 16:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-01 17:44 ` Robert Pluim
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=87tuwm95za.fsf@gmx.net \
--to=stephen.berman@gmx.net \
--cc=43003@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
/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.