bug#38802: new data

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> sequence:
>
>   - i ran a command in shell mode
>   - that command issued a password prompt
>   - that prompt was recognized by comint-password-prompt-regexp
>     - it appeared in minibuffer
>
> i surmise that type-break did something around that time due to its
> keystroke or time count, causing bug.  to continue:
>
>   - i flailed around not wanting to lose data or state
>   - keypresses not recognized
>   - this is the usual bug state
>   - message buffer shows all this for you

Ah, thanks -- so you were entering a password, and the type-break.el
stuff triggered, and that made Emacs hang?  `C-g' or anything didn't
work?