Re: Entering blind passwords at the CLI
On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 09:11:48PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 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).
Thank you for the "set mouse=" tip - I can confirm this fixed the copy-paste
issue in `neovim' as well.
>
> Give us more details.
>
> Cheers
> --
> tomás
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