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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:01:36 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, at 16:52, Chris Angelico wrote:
> There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for
> passwords (SSH and sudo work like this).

Less (or pagers generally, or an interactive text editor that allows
creating a file from standard input) would be another example of a
program where it makes sense to do this. It is an unusual thing to want
99% of the time, though.