GNU bug report logs - #13124
add non-English regexps to comint-password-prompt-regexp for sudo password prompt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: arne_bab <at> web.de

Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: arne_bab <at> web.de
Cc: 13124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13124: 24.1; shell-mode does not hide sudo password prompts
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:24:30 -0500

Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

> I like shell-mode a lot and it mostly just works.
>
> But I tend to use sudo quite a bit, and when I am promptd for my
> password, shell-mode echoes it verbatim to the buffer instead of hiding
> it as start or similar.

It's supposed to be hidden, and it is for me in `emacs -Q -f shell' in 24.1.
Please tell us exactly what your sudo prompt looks like.
Mine is:

    [sudo] password for gm:
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