GitHub - erickgnavar/cloak-mode: A minor mode to hide sensitive values
in buffers per major mode
reddit / emacs

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erickgnavar · 2022-11-09 05:23



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mickeyp · 2022-11-09 09:12

What does it do that `reveal-mode` does not? Reveal's used in authinfo
files by default to cloak the password field.

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erickgnavar · 2022-11-09 15:03

it allows to have different regex per major mode, for example a
specific regex for \`envrc\` files and another one for
\`restclient.el\` files, that's the use case I needed a solution for

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mickeyp · 2022-11-09 15:15

reveal looks for overlays: provided you write the right regexp to hide
what you need, reveal-mode will work with it. It's as buffer-local or
global as you want it to be. See `authinfo--hide-passwords`.