GNU bug report logs - #30190
27.0.50; term run in line mode shows user passwords

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Message #92 received at 30190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#30190: 27.0.50; term run in line mode shows user passwords
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:28:32 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I'm for fixing this in Emacs 26.2, but I still don't think I
> understand why the latest patch proposed in the discussion of this bug
> needs to "steal" so much from comint.el?
>
> Also, why does term-watch-for-password-prompt need to be invoked via a
> hook?

I don't these things are really required; as far as I understand, Tino
did it that way in order to be safer: the "stealing" is to avoid loading
comint.el, and using the hook is to keep the code closer to the already
working example it's being copied from.

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