Re: Setting file extensions to be handled by gpg encryption problem

[Bruno Tavernier <tavernier.bruno@gmail.com>]

Hi Tomas,

> I'm using gpg to encrypt files and I would like that files with 'txt'
> extension be treated like 'gpg' files.
> I read in the doc that this can be controlled with the variable
> epa-file-name-regexp
> So I added the following line at the end of my .emacs file
>
> (setq epa-file-name-regexp "\\.txt$")
>
> But this has absolutely no effect. I mean, if I create a txt file with
> emacs, when I save it I would like for emacs to ask for an encryption
> paraphrase, but it does not.

I just tried, it indeed does not work with that line only.
You have then to call `epa-file-name-regexp-update' to make it works.

cf describe-variable epa-file-name-regexp
,----
| epa-file-name-regexp is a variable defined in `epa-hook.el'.
| Its value is 
| "\\.gpg\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'"
| 
| Documentation:
| Regexp which matches filenames to be encrypted with GnuPG.
| 
| If you set this outside Custom while epa-file is already enabled, you
| have to call `epa-file-name-regexp-update' after setting it to
| properly update file-name-handler-alist.  Setting this through Custom
| does that automatically.
`----

-- 
Bruno