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authorStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2012-06-22 13:30:25 -0400
committerStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2012-06-22 13:30:25 -0400
commitac77b21adbddfd143449ef00be15df52f2ede924 (patch)
tree489dce1343c57e97873abfbb9692239474c6bf38
parent057306483c1c7a9216276c51946406c422d60b70 (diff)
downloademacs-ac77b21adbddfd143449ef00be15df52f2ede924.tar.gz
* lisp/subr.el (read-passwd): Don't use a history at all.
* lisp/savehist.el (savehist-save): Remove password saved accidentally because of the above bug.
-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--lisp/savehist.el7
-rw-r--r--lisp/subr.el6
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index c4ec842eedc..5c8bcaecfa0 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-06-22 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+ * subr.el (read-passwd): Don't use a history at all.
+ * savehist.el (savehist-save): Remove password saved accidentally
+ because of the above bug.
+
2012-06-22 Bastien Guerry <bzg@gnu.org>
* files.el (toggle-read-only): Display a message telling whether
diff --git a/lisp/savehist.el b/lisp/savehist.el
index a65906a1676..6310190b4fe 100644
--- a/lisp/savehist.el
+++ b/lisp/savehist.el
@@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ If AUTO-SAVE is non-nil, compare the saved contents to the one last saved,
(print-level nil)
(print-readably t)
(print-quoted t))
+ ;; During the 24.2 development, read-passwd had a bug which resulted in
+ ;; the passwords being saved by savehist. Trim them, retroactively.
+ ;; This code can be removed after the 24.2 release.
+ (dolist (sym savehist-minibuffer-history-variables)
+ (if (and (symbolp sym) (equal (symbol-name sym) "forget-history"))
+ (setq savehist-minibuffer-history-variables
+ (delq sym savehist-minibuffer-history-variables))))
;; Save the minibuffer histories, along with the value of
;; savehist-minibuffer-history-variables itself.
(when savehist-save-minibuffer-history
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 5deaf71e78d..7e56fe7c3ee 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -2171,11 +2171,7 @@ by doing (clear-string STRING)."
(set (make-local-variable 'post-self-insert-hook) nil)
(add-hook 'after-change-functions hide-chars-fun nil 'local))
(unwind-protect
- (read-string prompt nil
- (let ((sym (make-symbol "forget-history")))
- (set sym nil)
- sym)
- default)
+ (read-string prompt nil t default) ; t = "no history"
(when (buffer-live-p minibuf)
(with-current-buffer minibuf
;; Not sure why but it seems that there might be cases where the