Re: Automatic minor modes?

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-07-22 08:26, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>>> Could be just a few regexen for prettify-symbols-mode. Comes with an
>>>> ability to unmask the one the point is on.
>>
>> LI> It's similar, yes, but it should have commands to allow
>> LI> unmasking/remasking a single password, I think?
>>
>> prettify-symbols-mode has built-in the perfect tool for what
>> you're describing, `prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point':
>>
>> prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point is a variable defined in ‘prog-mode.el’.
>> Its value is ‘right-edge’
> 
> Ah, cool, then we should perhaps just activate that minor mode in
> .authino/.netrc buffers?  (With the appropriate regexps to hide the
> "passwd" token.)

Even better would be to move the "unmask-at-point" feature out of 
prettify-symbols-mode, so that more complex hiding could use it too 
(prettify-symbols-mode is fairly strict in its inputs).

As a concrete example, company-coq prettifies abc__hijk as abcₕᵢⱼₖ (notice the 
hidden "__"), and I had to reimplement the unmasking feature.

Clément.