detect_password_input = true

Since: Version 20220903-194523-3bb1ed61

The functionality described in this section requires version 20220903-194523-3bb1ed61 of wezterm, or a more recent version.

When set to true, on unix systems, for local panes, wezterm will query the termios associated with the PTY to see whether local echo is disabled and canonical input is enabled.

If those conditions are met, then the text cursor will be changed to a lock to give a visual cue that what you type will not be echoed to the screen.

This technique only works for local processes on unix systems, and will not work through other processes that themselves use PTYs. Most notably, this will not work with tmux or remote processes spawned via ssh.