Alan Neese asks:
> I want to ask the user to enter a password in a command file.
>
> Is there any way to NOT to have the password display when the user
> types the password?

:set echo=off
:input pwd,"Enter password: "
:set echo=on

This presupposes that echo was on to begin with.

(Note that turning echo off is MUCH more typing than the
"escape-semicolon" of yore, and can be especially painful
if you're trying to turn it back on.)

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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