Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> writes:

> I wrote a small patch, which makes it possible to use the GnuPG agent
> (which is part of gpg 1.9 and considered ready to use by Werner) with
> the GnuPG backend of pgg.
>
> I have done very little testing yet, but it seems to work fine.[0]
>
> To test it: 
> set up your gpg-agent as usual and set pgg-gpg-use-agent to t.

I am not convinced that this is the best idea -- so far as I can see, if
I were to set `pgg-gpg-use-agent' to `t' then I *must* use the agent.

Is it not possible to enable gpg to try the agent first, then to prompt
for a passphrase?

Also, is it possible to automatically detect support for using the agent
so that it isn't necessary to manually enable this -- once a new enough
version is available, support is enabled?

Obviously, automatically enabling this is only useful if the first issue
is resolved. :)

   Daniel
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