Subject: bug#13124: 24.1; shell-mode does not hide sudo password prompts

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:05:13 +0800

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> How does one go about retrieving this information in a
>> platform-independent way?
>
> We could use various ad-hoc hacks for the various known cases, as
> a "best effort".

How is that different from having an ad-hoc list of "password" words,
other than being more difficult to implement?