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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: better than read-hide-char
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:15:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvm7elbv3kt.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324f090-d53f-4e0e-81a8-ec86c23f9422@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:08:08 -0700 (PDT)")

On Jul 31 2018, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

>> Another feature would be to temporarily unhide the input.
>
> A user deserves feedback for whether a key actually was depressed sufficiently, i.e., whether Emacs received it. That's the reason for showing *** or ....

But that hides the input, so if you want to verify it it needs to be
unhidden.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-31 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-31  2:25 better than read-hide-char Richard Stallman
2018-07-31  7:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-31 15:08   ` Drew Adams
2018-07-31 15:15     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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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