Re: better than read-hide-char

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-07-31 16:17, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> This sounds like a good idea, but I think it'd be even better to put
>> that information in the modeline of the window above the minibuffer,
>> rather than in the minibuffer itself.
> 
> My minibuffer lives in its own frame, with no obvious "window above".
> 
> [ At startup, there is no modeline at all.  Admittedly, by the time
>   read-passwd gets called, there will probably be some frame displaying
>   a window with modeline somewhere, but the point is that there's no
>   clear modeline attached to the minibuffer, in general.  ]

Sure, but we don't necessarily need it to work in all cases.
How does eldoc do in your case?

Clément.