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28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 43003 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43003: 28.0.50; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:27:41 +0200

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> So this bug report is basically a plea to change the default value of
> comint-password-prompt-regexp to be the same as that of
> eshell-password-prompt-regexp.  Or is there a good reason not to do
> this?

The difference is that the former looks for something like "enter"
before something like "password:", while the latter is just looking for
variations of "password:"?

My guess would be that the latter would have more false positives...
but you'd think those would be pretty rare.  I can't imagine many people
having shells with prompts like "Type your user name here but definitely
not your password:".

So I think replacing the former with the latter might work, but comint
is very old code, so perhaps it supports older shells better here...

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