Disable or turn off echo
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 817
- Forks
- 247
- Avg merge
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Description
How to implement password input?
It seems like reedline doesn't support disable echo.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing reedline's terminal input handling to find where character echo is controlled. Determine the supported approach for password input, then confirm that entered characters are hidden and ordinary line editing still works without exposing the password.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100