GNU bug report logs - #12570
24.2.50; C-u does not work in read-passwd

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> cert.org>

Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.2.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> cert.org>
Cc: "12570 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <12570 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#12570: 24.2.50; C-u does not work in read-passwd
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:01:35 -0400

> If you truly think that this is TRT, so be it.  I will adjust
> (eventually).  But it does sit uneasily in my mind.  I can type C-u to
> cancel typing in passwords for login shells, ssh-add, and just about any
> other program that accepts a password.  It feels odd to switch my
> password typing habits just in Emacs.  When I fumble-finger a password,

We can add a C-u binding as well.  I don't have time right now, tho, so
if someone else wants to do it...


        Stefan
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