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From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not>
Subject: Re: get_immediate echoe character--compiled error?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 12:48:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufjfu9$4ev8$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lyh6n64x1u.fsf@pushface.org>

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.

-- 
Jeff Carter
“[A]bout half the patterns in the 'Gang of Four'
book only exist because of defects in C++ ...”
Brian Drummond
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04 10:48 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 [this message]
2023-10-04 11:38                   ` Simon Wright
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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