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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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Bob Weiner writes:
 > >>>>> "KJ" == Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 >    KJ> Heyyyy, now that would be reasonable.  Clearly redisplay already
 >    KJ> knows how to invert the display, given the tremendous flash that
 >    KJ> C-g gives if you use a visible bell.  Try this code, gang:
 > 
 >    KJ> (let ((visible-bell t)
 >    KJ>       (passwd-invert-frame-when-keyboard-grabbed nil)
 >    KJ>       (id nil))
 >    KJ>   (unwind-protect
 >    KJ>       (progn
 >    KJ> 	(setq id (add-timeout 0.3 'ding nil 0.3))
 >    KJ> 	(read-passwd "Password: "))
 >    KJ>     (and id (disable-timeout id))))
 > 
 >    KJ> Annoying as hell, and it works on ttys, too.
 > 
 > I believe this is the sort of software Timothy Leary was working
 > for the decade before he died.  Amazing that it never made
 > it to store shelves.
 > 
 > Bob
 > "I blink enough already."

It occurred to me later that inflicting the blink on epileptics
is not a good idea.  I don't know if they are already endangered
by sitting in front of a CRT, but blinking rapidly at them is
definitely bad juju from what I've read.

