On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 01:52:25PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > In my shaky old age I am having problems entering ****** passwords in a > shell terminal when I can’t see what I’m typing. I think I used to be able > to copy/paste with vi, but no luck in my attempt today. This has a lot of different branches. Where do you want to go? - The "blind password" thing will depend on the program you are targeting: which one is it? - How do you copy/paste? This might depend on the terminal you use - Vi has lately changed its defaults for copy-paste (in an X terminal, at least). I always have to "set mouse=" to get my old behaviour back (and secretly curse at whoever had this brilliant idea). Give us more details. Cheers -- tomás
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