Turn off password prompting on specific buffer

Turn off password prompting on specific buffer

[gamename]

Hi,

How do I turn off "comint-watch-for-password-prompt" on a particular
buffer?  I'm testing apps in a shell buffer which uses the "password:"
string.  This confuses comint.

TIA,
-T

Re: Turn off password prompting on specific buffer

[Colin S. Miller]

gamename wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How do I turn off "comint-watch-for-password-prompt" on a particular
> buffer?  I'm testing apps in a shell buffer which uses the "password:"
> string.  This confuses comint.
> 
> TIA,
> -T
> 

Gamename,

Try
(make-local-variable 'comint-password-prompt-regexp)
(setq comint-password-prompt-regexp [?^ 0 ?$])

This makes the password-prompt string local to the current buffer
(the shell), and then sets it to a single Ctrl-@ (ASCII 0) on a line,
hopefully that sequence will never appear.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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Re: Turn off password prompting on specific buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

gamename wrote:
> How do I turn off "comint-watch-for-password-prompt" on a particular
> buffer?  I'm testing apps in a shell buffer which uses the "password:"
> string.  This confuses comint.

In that buffer, remove comint-watch-for-password-prompt from the buffer
local comint-output-filter-functions abnormal hook:

(remove-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
              'comint-watch-for-password-prompt
              t) ; this makes the hook buffer-local, and modifies the 
local value

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Turn off password prompting on specific buffer

[Stefan Monnier]

> How do I turn off "comint-watch-for-password-prompt" on a particular
> buffer?  I'm testing apps in a shell buffer which uses the "password:"
> string.  This confuses comint.

You can (set (make-local-variable 'comint-password-prompt-regexp) "\\`a\\`")
But it'd be interesting to see what is the actual string(s) sent by your app
and mistakenly interpreted as a password prompt.  Maybe we make the default
regexp "tighter" so it doesn't get confused?


        Stefan