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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't determine how to read passwords, winging it.
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Steven L Baur writes:
 > 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.

I noticed. :)  I don't revisit working code very often, however.

 > Chuck fixed this almost two years ago.
 > 
 > (setq passwd-invert-frame-when-keyboard-grabbed nil)
 > 
 > turns off this bogus behavior.

How about just ripping face-flipping code out entirely?

