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Re: Line editors



At Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:54:44 -0800,
Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:23:13PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:

> > Look into rlwrap, which wraps pretty much anything with
> > libreadline functionality. Very cool. It's even smart enough
> > to echo **** on password prompts; I mostly use it with xboard
> > on FICS.
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> I'm not sure this is a feature...watching people can still tell how
> many characters you're typing.

Don't be paranoid ;-).  Really, if I want to input a password I'd
drop into a real shell.



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