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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 1997 14:11:29 -0800
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:49:47 -0500 (EST)
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> Steven L Baur writes:
>  > Kyle Jones writes:
>  > 
>  > > 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?

	I personally set passwd-invert-frame-when-keyboard-grabbed to
nil, since I often run XEmacs over a slip line, and it takes at least a
minute to reverse the screen.

	But I do admit that I have occassionally tried to ange-ftp a
file, which requires a password.  I thought I had already provided it
this sessions, so I'd move to another window and begin to type, only to
sit there for a while thinking something is broken.  Eventually I notice
that when I type in this other window there are `.' filling in my emacs
minibuffer.

	That said, I think it's a good thing that the default
configuration tries to let you know in some manner that it's grabbed the
keyboard.  Otherwise people will get burned.


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