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30.0.91; mini buffer password prompt mismatches shell buffer's

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From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
To: Van Ly via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
 editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Van Ly <van.ly <at> SDF.ORG>, 74626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74626: 30.0.91; mini buffer password prompt mismatches
 shell buffer's
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:32:47 +0100

Van Ly via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> When using ssh to connect to a machine, the password prompt is expected
> to be identical in the shell buffer and mini buffer.
>
> The mini buffer's prompt seems to make use of only the last character.
>
> See
>
>   http://sdf.org/~van.ly/img/emacs-30-0-91-password-prompt.webp
>
> The shell buffer's password prompt shows
>
>   van <at> 192.168.1.144's password:
>
> The mini buffer shows
>
>   4's password:

I can confirm this bug.  I did not report it but I've seen this only
when the host is just an IP address.
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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