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Subject: Re: Can't determine how to read passwords, winging it.
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William M Perry writes:

> Per Abrahamsen writes:
>> 
>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
>> 
>>> As far as I see, every explicit mention of `ange-ftp' in a Lisp
>>> utility is a bug.  It either has to go out, or be changed to efs.
>> 
>> How about code that is supposed to work in both Emacsen?

>   They should explicitly check for both, like Emacs-W3 does.  ie:

> (defvar passwd-reader
 ...

Um, what is wrong with using comint-read-noecho, which works properly
without any complicated feature checking in both emacsen?
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