Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
I'm for fixing this in Emacs 26.2, but I still don't think I
understand why the latest patch proposed in the discussion of this bug
needs to "steal" so much from comint.el?
Also, why does term-watch-for-password-prompt need to be invoked via a
hook?
I don't these things are really required; as far as I understand, Tino
did it that way in order to be safer: the "stealing" is to avoid loading
comint.el, and using the hook is to keep the code closer to the already
working example it's being copied from.