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Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:08:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <86il2kpfi0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:48:07 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:TvN6nIERVIeL9CFxTjMnnvH7vPWMONYQEdJozvw24rvZCQua/LJ W8mXB+FEmNAEx6TBAzdBHc8EBYo6hJiNmf8x66Qdpd8m9//bdVI/03CkNTMG9E0GH+qaFOu 1aaHmvCTdyYy6Pk7WXTIm3UvS0dOkGQ88aM5gV6ybqsTFwaczBgRKZ/cvf6JcCOXsLXobRJ qHNqqY189R/w9FDiMSl0w== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:OpDhWJmRrTY=;3yyflxIK53sF6g62Sb7TR/viFME q6Nn+leRdTcISA/Y+rekw8K4XNdk60qya9LW8QqE7pmER4wcGeMrnp1lqYdWFrDJ6kUI1JfhF xjdGoRF3u9Ld0PqViv/ZzzZqQIuAbpj8IHq2vjkK7UCZCxla8LDjx2OYfbFgseYzHiZK5whRc L5aF0nOxsMU/tS5whd8oGhiAsnDdriic6V36ya7LUMXqi01PKHUD5VUlF539n9RULwTttNOye lrNAZJp6EfeH13hLG/yo7r3UBYzFeNLuXDRIvWKUDMiPTSJPOqHzcNDjq+Pwa529hDV0gsNp8 PZVX2KmmyYpnWLTxTvTGhXTePXxbjlIq78o/CYDqpCACuSEPUczxZTRBSz/wkn1yhVimdSkWk qq5yulau+GBSYv6pp14+y1JqYQEE005qSFSb7cr6U7ro+hK8iV5MblmCm+WDJ5smS5uRpi4AN wC+kYci5zZmtcyExbCdyvtI7kREJ56+WQy0Vob8RaV7/sJKVoVGdjz9+ogWGyqna4y5DT55P5 JjZHYTl8rjuwZPH8jsdk91I/2TR6YgTrrSllCwDxuQRSeYLeZ1XKcOJgZ7Yp0iAXNmtTpj62p +GG6LdT+AmTDPSWfcwHDjc4mRtqBABkSioeCFisGKAjD3QJ15m3aho5gy4NNeOxuGLBlOd/YX PsEywmC7V/5OLDzwrffT93dR2juanC9GqwC54xdmOh/DC76RHBlYx/a/0cAG9a2MJgZZt/nBM c+y09c0J91Ml6wScb9kjfUMwHXCCHDZaWonyZ5vUHWEsfb+L9yRLH7J3VIkytvN5ltkYnOwo X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:280282 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: Hi Eli, >> > I'm not sure TAB is the best candidate for this. I think it would be >> > better to use some non-character key, like F9 or somesuch. And >> > another one, for keyboards without function key. >> >> As usual, I don't care too much about this, so I'm OK with any >> proposal. However, out of curiosity, what's wrong with TAB? I'm not >> aware that any password contains it. > > Is it impossible for TAB to appear in a password? Passwords are often entered in HTML pages with a special password field, derived from text fields. On HTML pages, TAB is applied to jump to the next text field or anchor. See . So I doubt that TABs can be used in passwords. See also the discussion in the sytemd issue , where Lennart Poettering has said something similar about systemd-ask-password. > If it is, the TAB is okay, and my only reservation about that is that > TAB is not generally interpreted in my mental model of "advanced" > input patterns as something that hides/shows stuff. TAB is more about > completion and similar functionality. But that's me. > > Let's hear opinions from others. Yep. Best regards, Michael.