On Tue, 29.03.11 19:17, Jan Engelhardt ([email protected]) wrote: > >> >I have now fixed git to accept both TAB and BS as silent mode switch > >> >key. TAB at any time, and BS only if pressed as very first key on the > >> >prompt. > >> >Everybody happy? > >> > >> No. We don't need two keys to perform the same action. \t can go away. > > > >I think it has one big advantage: if you types something and then want > >to hide it you can use that. Think: you type your passphrase, you notice > >somebody looks over your shoulder, you press TAB and he's left in the > >dark. > > You did not seem to have troubles with the stars, so why are you now > discontent with how they are hidden? This \t thing and switching to > noecho mode on the Nth key smells terribly like overdesign.
Does it? It's a two line change. I think discussing this much longer smells terribly like bikeshedding... ;-) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
