Variable: eshell-password-prompt-max-length

eshell-password-prompt-max-length is a variable defined in esh-mode.el.gz.

Value

256

Documentation

The maximum amount of text to examine when matching password prompts.

This is used by eshell-watch-for-password-prompt to reduce the amount of time spent searching for password prompts.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 30.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/eshell/esh-mode.el.gz
(defvar eshell-password-prompt-max-length 256
  "The maximum amount of text to examine when matching password prompts.
This is used by `eshell-watch-for-password-prompt' to reduce the amount
of time spent searching for password prompts.")