bug#73768: 'read-passwd-mode' can clobber user defined mode lines

[Michael Albinus]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Martin,

>> If anyone has a good idea what to do here, please speak up.
>
> Sigh.

I gave it another try. The appended patch dosn't add the password icon
to mode-line-format, but to global-mode-string. By this, we don't bother
to find the corresponding window to a given minibuffer.

This doesn't solve the problem of cascaded password input, but that's
another game.

WDYT?

>> Thanks, martin

Best regards, Michael.

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