>>>>> Laurent Gatto <lg...@cam.ac.uk> >>>>> 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 <sj...@cam.ac.uk> 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 ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help