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by rafram 59 days ago
What you’re describing would be a completely unusable terminal. You’d lose things as basic as the backspace key. And what’s wrong with Terminal.app indicating when it’s suppressing output?
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Terminal.app does not suppress output in my example.

The ssh command switches the terminal into no-echo mode with termios flags.

Terminal.app, being clever, watches for disabled echo (among other things) and assumes a password is being entered and displays the key icon and enables Secure Event Input.

I don't want Terminal.app to be clever.

Why not?
You're talking nonsense. Backspace worked entirely fine on dumb terminals