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Re: Change stars as read-hide-char
From: |
Colin Baxter |
Subject: |
Re: Change stars as read-hide-char |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:54:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Dear Robert,
Thank you for your reply.
>>>>> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
> Colin Baxter <address@hidden> writes:
>> My apologies for posting here, I can't get posting rights at
>> gmane.emacs.help. My `return-confirmation' emails get bounced at
>> that news-group.
>>
>> The development emacs-27 version recently changed the default
>> character seen when entering a password from `.' to `*'. I want
>> to get back to the old default, but
>>
>> (let (read-hide-char) "?.")
>>
> 'let' specifies a list of variable bindings, and you want the
> character '.', not a string containing '?' and '.', so itʼs:
> (let ((read-hide-char ?. )) (message "%c" read-hide-char))
Unfortunately
(let ((read-hide-char ?. ))
(message "%c" read-hide-char))
also doesn't work. It gives the error
Wrong type argument: characterp, "?."
as soon as I enter a password. The same error occurs if I use
`emacs -q'. Could this be a bug?
Best wishes,
Colin.