[ESS] Prevent ESS From Writing .Rhistory

RICHARD M. HEIBERGER rmh @end|ng |rom temp|e@edu
Fri Aug 26 03:52:24 CEST 2016


yes i am sure

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> On Aug 25, 2016, at 17:00, Stephen Eglen <sje30 using cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Yes, the dots appear in the minibuffer.  Then when the minibuffer goes
>> away, the password is displayed in the
>> *R* buffer.
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> When I do this:
> 
>  cat(" Password: "); pwd <- readLines(file("stdin"), 1)
> 
> Then I all I see in *R* is:
> Password: >
> 
> and I would consider it a bug to have the password echoed.  (Not just
> for ESS but for shell/other comint modes).
> 
> Stephen




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