Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
>>> 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 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?
>
> Yes, that would be good.  I'll try to implement it.

I attached a patch which performs a test if gpg-agent is really
available when pgg-gpg-use-agent is set to t.

Please note, this new patch also fixees a bug, which was introduced
by the original patch and broke non agent use...

cheers
sascha