Re: emacs paste password, only pastes one character

[B. T. Raven]

Die Fri Oct 12 2012 17:29:03 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) B. T.
Raven <btraven@nihilo.net> scripsit:

> Die Thu Oct 11 2012 21:29:52 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) John Owens
> <john_owens@yahoo.com> scripsit:
> 
>> OS X 10.8.2, GNU Emacs 24.2.1. 
>>
>> I read my email in Emacs using the "wanderlust" mailer. I store
>> passwords in 1Password, and would like to use the "copy" button in
>> 1Password to put the (~20-character) stored password into the
>> clipboard, then paste it into the request for a password in Emacs. I
>> have confirmed the clipboard is doing the right thing. However, when I
>> C-y yank the password from the clipboard into Emacs, it only pastes a
>> single character. This is annoying; I'd like it to paste the entire
>> clipboard.
>>
>> The function that accepts the password is elmo-read-passwd,
>> http://pastebin.com/3xYGQU5L .
> 
> Does the password ever get longer than one character? The end of the
> (while ....) form always truncates the rightmost character.


Oops! That's in the (cond ...) form, just stripping off final control
char (\r \n \e or \b).
> 
> If that's not the answer, then look at
> "
> (set-clipboard-coding-system CODING-SYSTEM)
> 
> Make CODING-SYSTEM used for communicating with other X clients.
> When sending or receiving text via cut_buffer, selection
> "
> 
> I learned here that that variable should not be utf-8 in w32. I don't
> know what it should be under OS-X.
> 
> Ed
>>
>> Happy to get any thoughts on how to trick emacs into accepting the
>> entire password!
>>
>> JDO
>>
>>
>>
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