* Re: Hide passwords? [not found] <b1d85073-ad40-4a7c-8c7c-c28024afdcdd@z25g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> @ 2010-09-14 14:31 ` Felix E. Klee 2010-09-15 8:29 ` Stefan Monnier 1 sibling, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Felix E. Klee @ 2010-09-14 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs On Sep 14, 2:15 pm, "Felix E. Klee" <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote: > Is it possible to have passwords hidden? To follow up on my own question: I guess that EMACS faces could be used for that purpose. But I don't want to reinvent the wheel, if someone has a solution ready... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Hide passwords? [not found] <b1d85073-ad40-4a7c-8c7c-c28024afdcdd@z25g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> 2010-09-14 14:31 ` Hide passwords? Felix E. Klee @ 2010-09-15 8:29 ` Stefan Monnier 1 sibling, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2010-09-15 8:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs > Is it possible to have passwords hidden? From where? If you enter a password interactively (e.g. in a shell, or for Tramp, ...) then Emcs should already try to do that for you. > Something like this: > * I mark up a password using square brackets: [secret] > * The marked up password is hidden: ******** > * When I copy a region containing the hidden password, the password > ends up in plain-text in the kill ring! So you mean the password is in a file and you want to write a new mode specific to that kind of file where the password is not displayed (but kill&yank still copy the real text)? That's easy to do, yes. Stefan ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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