bug#36515: 25.1; Tramp doesn't allow pasting passwords

[Connor, Adam J]

Tramp does not seem to allow pasting in the password (ctrl-y),

which plays hell with those of us who have so many passwords

that we generate them randomly and use a password manager.

The "work-around" is to paste the password somewere, and try

to type it in manually. This obviously works less and less

well as the passwords get longer.

In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11)

 of 2017-09-15, modified by Debian built on trouble

Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11902000

System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch)

Configured using:

 'configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr

 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib

 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info

 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes

 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs25:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp

 --with-sound=alsa --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr

 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib

 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info

 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes

 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs25:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp

 --with-sound=alsa --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3

 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars 'CFLAGS=-g -O2

 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/emacs25-wN2qS3/emacs25-25.1+1=. -fstack-protector-strong

 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time

 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'

Configured features:

XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS

NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB

TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

Important settings:

  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8

  locale-coding-system: utf-8

Major mode: YAML

Minor modes in effect:

  my-keys-minor-mode: t

  tabbar-mwheel-mode: t

  tabbar-mode: t

  global-nlinum-mode: t

  nlinum-mode: t

  diff-auto-refine-mode: t

  global-undo-tree-mode: t

  undo-tree-mode: t

  shell-dirtrack-mode: t

  recentf-mode: t

  desktop-save-mode: t

  override-global-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  global-eldoc-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  buffer-read-only: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:

Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on ‘erpint-dmz-q01’

Tramp: Opening connection for erpint-dmz-q01 using ssh...done

Tramp: Inserting ‘/ssh:erpint-dmz-q01:/mnt/commons/apps/app009/project_config.yaml’...

Tramp: Encoding remote file ‘/ssh:erpint-dmz-q01:/mnt/commons/apps/app009/project_config.yaml’ with ‘base64 <%s’...done

Tramp: Decoding local file ‘/tmp/tramp.47178ldp.yaml’ with ‘base64-decode-region’...done

Tramp: Inserting ‘/ssh:erpint-dmz-q01:/mnt/commons/apps/app009/project_config.yaml’...done

Note: file is write protected

Tramp: Checking ‘vc-registered’ for /ssh:erpint-dmz-q01:/mnt/commons/apps/app009/project_config.yaml...done

Note: file is write protected

Load-path shadows:

~/.emacs.d/lib/tabbar-master/revive hides /home/adamc/.emacs.d/lib/revive

/home/adamc/.emacs.d/lib/dash hides /home/adamc/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-2.13.0/dash

/usr/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup

/home/adamc/.emacs.d/lib/indent hides /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/indent

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/textmodes/rst

Features:

(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug sendmail vc-git yaml-mode tramp-cache

conf-mode compile-utils venv-utils virtualenvwrapper-utils flymake-utils

tabbar revbufs fill-column-indicator nlinum linum virtualenvwrapper dash

vc-svn psvn derived log-edit message rfc822 mml mml-sec epg mm-decode

mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums

mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader pcvs-util add-log diff-mode

pp elp ediff-merg ediff-wind ediff-diff ediff-mult ediff-help ediff-init

ediff-util dired rdp-utils web-mode disp-table process-utils flymake

python tramp-sh json map compile cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus

cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs sgml-mode undo-tree

tramp tramp-compat auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core gnus-util mm-util

help-fns mail-prsvr password-cache tramp-loaddefs trampver ucs-normalize

shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring format-spec advice pype-utils

env-utils ido edmacro kmacro ibuffer recentf tree-widget wid-edit

desktop frameset ajc-packages file-utils proj-utils s

exec-path-from-shell misterioso-theme util winbuf macro-utils

use-package cl-macs cl bind-key easy-mmode finder-inf info package

epg-config seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode

easymenu cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip

eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win

term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe

tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page

menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock

syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang

misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms

cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian

cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help

simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces

cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format

env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote

dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting

move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:

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