>>>>> Laurent Gatto <[email protected]>
>>>>> on Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:12:04 +0100 writes:
> On 26 August 2016 02:52, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER wrote:
>> yes i am sure
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 17:00, Stephen Eglen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yes, the dots appear in the minibuffer. Then when the minibuffer goes
>>>> away, the password is displayed in the
>>>> *R* buffer.
>>>
>>> Are you sure?
>>>
>>> When I do this:
>>>
>>> cat(" Password: "); pwd <- readLines(file("stdin"), 1)
>>>
>>> Then I all I see in *R* is:
>>> Password: >
>>>
>>> and I would consider it a bug to have the password echoed. (Not just
>>> for ESS but for shell/other comint modes).
> Well, as far as I can tell, it does work as expected using
> ess 16.04 [elpa 20160819.531]
> emacs 24.5.1
for me, it works, too (on Linux, same emacs version).
I assume this could be an R issue more than an ESS one, and am
guessing that Rich is on a platform where file("stdin") is
not well implemented (because of missing / flaky / ... OS support),
Rich ?
Martin
> Laurent
>>> Stephen
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