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Subject: bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el
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> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:00:27 +0200
> 
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> 
> > I'm thankful that I had the luck to be able to restore the previous
> > state so that I got my Email working again and could open this report.
> > This should not happen to others.
> 
> I discovered by accident that
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback)
> #+end_src
> 
> does what I want.
> 
> It would still be good to have some page in the manual that describes
> with what tools file encryption in Emacs is done, and where to look for
> documentation.  Currently there is only a description of encryption
> commands of dired (info "(emacs) Operating on Files").

I agree.

Daiki, could you please add some user-level documentation about this
package?