From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: better than read-hide-char
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fkKLW-0002D2-Ep@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
How about a feature whereby instead of ******************* or .............
the password echoes as 012345678901234567890123456789...
That way, you could tell how many characters you have successfully typed
even when they are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 characters.
That would help people notice some mistakes in long passwords.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next reply other threads:[~2018-07-31 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-31 2:25 Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-07-31 7:18 ` better than read-hide-char Andreas Schwab
2018-07-31 15:08 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-31 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-31 15:41 ` Drew Adams
2018-08-01 4:31 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-31 9:25 ` Simon Leinen
2018-07-31 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-01 4:29 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-01 15:48 ` Davis Herring
2018-08-01 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-02 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2018-07-31 16:10 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-07-31 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-01 14:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-01 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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