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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: get_immediate echoe character--compiled error?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:38:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ly5y3m4nxw.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ufjfu9$4ev8$1@dont-email.me

"Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not> writes:

> On 2023-10-04 10:22, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Or, alternatively, don't turn echoing off at all - what's the use
>> case
>> for turning it off? After all, the ARM says nothing about it.
>
> The use case is inputting passwords and the like. See Password_Line
> (https://github.com/jrcarter/Encryption-utilities/blob/master/password_line.ads)
> for an example. Note that this has identical behavior with GNAT/Linux
> and ObjectAda/Windows.

Obviously you need to turn echoing off for password input. But neither
the ARM nor the GNAT RM says anything about Get_Immediate's echoing
behaviour, so it's hard to explain why OA does the same thing. Does its
manual specify this behaviour?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-02  2:42 get_immediate echoe character--compiled error? richardthiebaud
2023-10-02  5:48 ` Keith Thompson
2023-10-02 20:07   ` richardthiebaud
2023-10-02 22:27     ` Keith Thompson
2023-10-02 22:41       ` richardthiebaud
2023-10-02 22:47       ` richardthiebaud
2023-10-03  8:41         ` Niklas Holsti
2023-10-03 10:20           ` Simon Wright
2023-10-04  0:13             ` Keith Thompson
2023-10-04  8:22               ` Simon Wright
2023-10-04 10:48                 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-10-04 11:38                   ` Simon Wright [this message]
2023-10-04 13:05                     ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-10-05  0:43                       ` Randy Brukardt
2023-10-04 16:55                 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-10-04 19:39                   ` Keith Thompson
2023-10-04 21:20                     ` Niklas Holsti
2023-10-03 21:00 ` G.B.
2023-10-04 21:14 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-10-04 22:12   ` Keith Thompson
2023-10-05  9:51     ` Jeffrey R.Carter
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