I doubt that it is OS. it could be out-of-date ESS. I see this on ESS 14.09 on Macintosh ESS 15.03-1 on Windows ESS 15.09-2 on Windows
Are there other variables besides comint-password-prompt-regexp that might be relevant? On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >>>>>> 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