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Subject: Re: Can't determine how to read passwords, winging it.
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Kyle Jones writes:

> Per Abrahamsen writes:
>> All of these packages should use `read-passwd', which is
>> autoloaded from `passwd.el'.
>> 
>> If `read-passwd' doesn't do the right thing, it should be fixed.

> The problem I have with read-password is that the thing flipped
> the screen colors around and royally screwed up my faces that
> last time I tried it.  I couldn't convince Jamie to excise this
> extraneous behavior from the function, so VM uses the password
> reading function that I wrote for crypt.el long ago.

Jamie doesn't maintain XEmacs any more.  Chuck fixed this almost two
years ago.

(setq passwd-invert-frame-when-keyboard-grabbed nil)

turns off this bogus behavior.
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