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bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:10:55 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:27:41 +0200 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> So this bug report is basically a plea to change the default value of
>> comint-password-prompt-regexp to be the same as that of
>> eshell-password-prompt-regexp. Or is there a good reason not to do
>> this?
>
> The difference is that the former looks for something like "enter"
> before something like "password:", while the latter is just looking for
> variations of "password:"?
>
> My guess would be that the latter would have more false positives...
> but you'd think those would be pretty rare. I can't imagine many people
> having shells with prompts like "Type your user name here but definitely
> not your password:".
>
> So I think replacing the former with the latter might work, but comint
> is very old code, so perhaps it supports older shells better here...
The minimal change to fix my use case is to add the carriage return
character as an alternative to comint-password-prompt-regexp, as in the
attached patch. If even that is too risky, I'll just stick with a local
fix.
Steve
txteJNbLNWWZG.txt
Description: comint-password-prompt-regexp patch
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Stephen Berman, 2020/08/23
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/24
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive,
Stephen Berman <=
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/27
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Stephen Berman, 2020/08/27
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/28
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Stephen Berman, 2020/08/28
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/30
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Stephen Berman, 2020/08/31
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Robert Pluim, 2020/08/31
- bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive, Stephen Berman, 2020/08/31