Re: Mysterious hidden end of line characters.

[David]

> >> The problem is when locale is french or else maybe, the regex that
> >> match "Mot de passe :" don't exist.
> >
> > Could be this works:
> >
> >     "\\(\\(\\(Enter \\|[Oo]ld \\|[Nn]ew \\|'s \\|login \\|Kerberos
> > \\|
> > CVS \\|UNIX \\| SMB \\|LDAP \\|\\[sudo] \\|^\\)[Pp]assword\\( (again)\
> > \)?\\|pass phrase\\|\\(Enter \\|Repeat \\|Bad \\)?[Pp]assphrase\\)\\
> > (?:, try again\\)\\|Mot de passe \\)?\\(?: for [^:]+\\)?:\\s *\\'"
> >
> >
> > It's a very complicated structure that takes into account that you
> > might fail to enter correctly a Kerberos, or CVS, or SMB, or LDAP
> > password, some pass phrase, and I don't know what else.
> >
> > Forgetting all this troublesome stuff, just describe another option
> >
> >     \\|Mot de passe
> >
> > with a final SPC that is then followed by
> >
> >     ?\\(?: for [^:]+\\)
> >
> > so you have to put everything before this expression into a froup with
> > \\(...\\). Or this is more correct?
> >
> >     "\\(\\(\\(Enter \\|[Oo]ld \\|[Nn]ew \\|'s \\|login \\|Kerberos
> > \\|
> > CVS \\|UNIX \\| SMB \\|LDAP \\|\\[sudo] \\|^\\)[Pp]assword\\( (again)\
> > \)?\\|pass phrase\\|\\(Enter \\|Repeat \\|Bad \\)?[Pp]assphrase\\)\\
> > (?:, try again\\)?\\(?: for [^:]+\\)\\|Mot de passe \\)?:\\s *\\'"
> >
> > Mostly guessing, not completely understanding.
> 
> I have tested it in ubuntu and here in gentoo
> Tramp prompt, sudo are not affected, it work.
> 
> So here to have password hidden with french prompt:
> 
> (setq comint-password-prompt-regexp 
>       "\\(\\(\\(Enter \\|[Oo]ld \\|[Nn]ew \\|'s \\|login \\|Kerberos
> \\|
> CVS \\|UNIX \\| SMB \\|LDAP \\|\\[sudo] \\|^\\)[Pp]assword\\( (again)\
> \)?\\|pass phrase\\|\\(Enter \\|Repeat \\|Bad \\)?[Pp]assphrase\\)\\
> (?:, try again\\)\\|Mot de passe \\)?\\(?: for [^:]+\\)?:\\s *\\'")
> 
> Thank you for your help.
 
Hi Thierry

Thaks for going into such depth, you guys are going way deeper than I
am able to here. Unfortunately this doesn't work in my *shell*, I
still see the characters typed at the password: prompt. But I don't
mind. I love the M-x term for running mutt and M-x eshell seems very
cool for super user tasks, unlike the terminal emulator you don't
loose the emacs functionality.

I have one small proble with the eshell, after running su my promt is
a bit naff.

~ $ su
Password: 
dell-1 /home/dave # 

What options are there for having a nicer prompt in eshell? It would
be nice to show the path in the prompt when the path is short or
abreviate the path in the prompt when the path is long. Am I dreaming?

cheers
Dave