Redact sensitive information with regular expressions

Found a great idea from Zenodium.
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Howard Abrams 2023-09-18 10:32:59 -07:00
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@ -23,7 +23,34 @@ A literate programming version for Emacs code to generate and store passwords.
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;;; Code:
#+end_src
* Introduction
* Overlay Redaction
Love [[https://xenodium.com/redact-that-buffer/][this idea]] for using a regular expression to /redact/ (or at least, obscure) sensitive information before screen sharing.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun toggle-redact-buffer (regexp)
"Redact buffer content matching regexp. A space redacts all."
(interactive (list (read-regexp "Text to Redact (Regexp)" 'regexp-history-last)))
(let* ((redacted)
(matches (let ((results '()))
(when (string-empty-p regexp)
(setq regexp "[[:graph:]]")
(setq regexp-history-last regexp)
(add-to-history 'regexp-history regexp))
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward regexp nil t)
(push (cons (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)) results)))
(nreverse results))))
(mapc (lambda (match)
(dolist (overlay (overlays-in (car match) (cdr match)))
(setq redacted t)
(delete-overlay overlay))
(unless redacted
(overlay-put (make-overlay (car match) (cdr match))
'display (make-string (- (cdr match) (car match)) ?x))))
matches)))
#+end_src
Im not sure how often I will use this, so Im not putting it on a keybinding, also so, I will also not put a name-spacing prefix on the function.
* Password Generation
Let's assume that I store a bunch of words in data files:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defvar ha-passwords-data-files (list (expand-file-name "adjectives.txt"