From: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new file mode: automatic gpg encryption
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:39:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abriy89m.fsf@everybody.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy7f3o03d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:35:55 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> On emacswiki.org, I found a snippet of code that uses mailcrypt to
>> automatically encrypt and decrypt a file with the .gpg extension.
>
>> I rewrote this to use the functions bundled with emacs and think it
>> would be a useful addition to emacs.
> How 'bout posting a patch here?
I'm pretty sure the design is wrong. That is, you can see the buffer
fill with encrypted text for just a bit (when the before-save-hook is
run) and then return to its previous state (when after-save-hook is
run).
Since this is the first time I've worked with a mode like this at all, I
can modify it as needed.
After looking at "(elisp) Saving Buffers", I suspect that the proper
place for this is the write-file-functions hook (which
allout-write-file-hook-handler uses to encrypt specific regions of
text).
Also, I've used pgg-gpg-* functions when I should probably use pgg-*
functions.
In any case, here is the code snippet I'm using.
(defvar pgg-gpg-user-id "YOUR-ID-HERE")
(autoload 'pgg-make-temp-file "pgg" "PGG")
(autoload 'pgg-gpg-decrypt-region "pgg-gpg" "PGG GnuPG")
(define-generic-mode 'gpg-file-mode
(list ?#)
nil nil
'(".gpg\\'" ".gpg-encrypted\\'")
(list (lambda ()
(add-hook 'before-save-hook
(lambda ()
(let ((pgg-output-buffer (current-buffer)))
(pgg-gpg-encrypt-region (point-min) (point-max)
(list pgg-gpg-user-id))))
nil t)
(add-hook 'after-save-hook
(lambda ()
(let ((pgg-output-buffer (current-buffer)))
(pgg-gpg-decrypt-region (point-min) (point-max)))
(set-buffer-modified-p nil)
(auto-save-mode nil))
nil t)
(let ((pgg-output-buffer (current-buffer)))
(pgg-gpg-decrypt-region (point-min) (point-max)))
(auto-save-mode nil)
(set-buffer-modified-p nil)))
"Mode for gpg encrypted files")
--
http://hexmode.com/
GPG Fingerprint: 7E15 362D A32C DFAB E4D2 B37A 735E F10A 2DFC BFF5
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein, The World As I See it
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 1:50 new file mode: automatic gpg encryption Mark A. Hershberger
2007-09-19 1:56 ` Leo
2007-09-19 2:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-19 8:36 ` Leo
2007-09-19 15:39 ` Mark A. Hershberger [this message]
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