From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: better than read-hide-char
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:18:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmin4vvpny.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fkKLW-0002D2-Ep@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:25:10 -0400")
On Jul 30 2018, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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.
Another feature would be to temporarily unhide the input.
Andreas.
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Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
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"And now for something completely different."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-31 7:18 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 [this message]
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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