If you see a password prompt in a shell or other comint buffer
(instead of in…
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lispwizard · 2026-09-27 16:06

If you see a password prompt in a shell or other comint buffer
(instead of in the minibuffer where it will be hidden, which happens
because the exact prompt isn't covered by emacs' default password-
prompt-detecting regular expression), you can get the same effect of
not typing the password in cleartext into that buffer by using m-:
(send-invisible).#emacs #tidbit