From: Greg Wooledge Subject: Re: RFE: Echo dots option for 'read -s' Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:58:21 -0500
>Indeed. But I really think this belongs at the application level, not >at the terminal driver level. The cases where you want to echo back >something other than what was typed (but not remain silent) are so >exceedingly rare that you can't justify clogging up the terminal driver >with that. I don't disagree (with anything in your most recent post). But maybe what we really need is a "password mode", yes, in the terminal driver, but only activated with, say, "stty -password". But, of course, keeping in mind that this is all idle speculation and will never happen. ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. When responding to my posts, please try to refrain from giving bureaucratic answers. If you have nothing useful to say, then just click Next and go on.
