[ESS] Prevent ESS From Writing .Rhistory

[Richard M. Heiberger]

I doubt that it is OS.  it could be out-of-date ESS.

I see this on
ESS 14.09 on Macintosh
ESS 15.03-1 on Windows
ESS 15.09-2 on Windows

Are there other variables besides
comint-password-prompt-regexp
that might be relevant?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Laurent Gatto <lg390 using cam.ac.uk>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:12:04 +0100 writes:
>
>     > On 26 August 2016 02:52, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER wrote:
>
>     >> yes i am sure
>     >>
>     >> Sent from my iPhone
>     >>
>     >>> 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).
>
>     > Well, as far as I can tell, it does work as expected using
>
>     > ess 16.04 [elpa 20160819.531]
>     > emacs 24.5.1
>
> for me, it works, too  (on Linux, same emacs version).
>
> I assume this could be an R issue more than an ESS one, and am
> guessing that Rich is on a platform where   file("stdin")   is
> not well implemented (because of missing / flaky / ...  OS support),
> Rich ?
>
> Martin
>
>     > Laurent
>
>     >>> Stephen