bug#13124: 24.1; shell-mode does not hide sudo password prompts

[Michael Albinus]

Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> How does one go about retrieving this information in a
>>> platform-independent way?
>>
>> We could use various ad-hoc hacks for the various known cases, as
>> a "best effort".
>
> How is that different from having an ad-hoc list of "password" words,
> other than being more difficult to implement?

Other packages could profit from a predefined list of "password" words
as well. Tramp comes to my mind ...

Best regards, Michael.