Subject: bug#6291: 24.0.50; view-lossage cut off after password entry

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:07:19 +0200

[email-masked] 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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