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To: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't determine how to read passwords, winging it. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:18:25 EST."
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:46:55 -0600
From: Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>

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

Actually, I like the behavior.  The problem is that there is no proper
way to do it currently.  I had on my mythical (and lengthy) list of
things to do adding the proper way to do this, which is to add a flag
which causes redisplay itself to invert the foreground and background
properties.  One nice and simple flag that works without actually
altering the face in any way.  It would only take a couple hours to
do.


			-Chuck

