bug#30190: 27.0.50; term run in line mode shows user passwords

[Tino Calancha]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I'm for fixing this in Emacs 26.2, but I still don't think I
> > understand why the latest patch proposed in the discussion of this bug
> > needs to "steal" so much from comint.el?
> >
> > Also, why does term-watch-for-password-prompt need to be invoked via a
> > hook?
>
> I don't these things are really required; as far as I understand, Tino
> did it that way in order to be safer: the "stealing" is to avoid loading
> comint.el, and using the hook is to keep the code closer to the already
> working example it's being copied from.
Exactly, I almost forgot this stuff.  Noam now understands my patch better
than me.  Feel free to adjust it as you wish, you are very smart.