Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
>>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:59:31 +0200
>>> 
>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> 
>>> > The next question is: do we want to enable this by default and in a
>>> > way that users cannot have the previous behavior back?
>>> 
>>> I think that having this as a default is a good thing™ (no more clear
>>> password in lossage).  About being able to revert this behaviour, I know
>>> I won't use it but maybe it has some use case with the dribble file: do
>>> people use the dribble file as some automation tool for example?
>>> 
>>> > In any case, this needs a NEWS entry, I think.
>>> 
>>> Ok, I'd one to this patch when we have decide the default and if it
>>> needs a user option.
>>
>> Sounds like having this on by default is what people want.  But we
>> need a knob to revert to the previous behavior, and we need a NEWS
>> entry.  Could you please prepare an updated patch with those two
>> additions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Yes, there should be an option to revert it, otherwise it'll break my
> "workflow"[1].
>
> [1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/
>
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> Akib Azmain Turja
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And I think it would be useful to record non self-insert keys (like
"M-x") while typing password, since those key aren't related to the
password.

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