GNU bug report logs - #6291
24.0.50; view-lossage cut off after password entry

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 05:57:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50; view-lossage cut off after password entry
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:25:38 +0800

Do
$ emacs -Q -f shell
$ echo -n Password:; read
Password: ...
C-h l
upon which we see the view-lossage record is truncated.
Why can't you just put a "[PASSWORD]" marker in there? Why do you have to wipe everything out?
Also the view-lossage docstring doesn't say what is going on.
emacs-version "24.0.50.1" Debian package 1:20100524-1.
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:08:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 6291 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.0.50; view-lossage cut off after password entry
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:07:19 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> Do
> $ emacs -Q -f shell
> $ echo -n Password:; read
> Password: ...
> C-h l
> upon which we see the view-lossage record is truncated.
> Why can't you just put a "[PASSWORD]" marker in there? Why do you have
> to wipe everything out?

Putting something the user didn't write in view-lossage is an even
bigger bug than censoring some of what she wrote.

So I don't think this is a bug.

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