From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (67-5-177-213.ptld.qwest.net [67.5.177.213]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9D0379260 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:55:10 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brannon To: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com References: <20151217134608.GA4216@acer.attlocal.net> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:55:16 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Kevin Carhart's message of "Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:38:23 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <87h9jgivuj.fsf@mushroom.localdomain> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] masking of passwords X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:55:11 -0000 Kevin Carhart writes: > I know that at the time I type i2=password, > or something, edbrowse > has no way of knowing what I want to do next Yeah, generally that is true. However, I've seen programs be pretty smart about this. For example, the IRC client weechat will start printing masking characters as soon as you type the string /msg nickserv identify For those not familiar with IRC, this is often how you authenticate your account, by sending a private message to a bot named nickserv. We could do that kind of cleverness in edbrowse, but I like your "invisible mode" idea. -- Chris