Michael Heerdegen [2016-02-08 15:44:19+01] wrote:

> since some days ago, epg-gpg-program defaults to gpg2 (when installed)
> in emacs-25.
>
> With that new default, when Gnus tries to open my "~/.authinfo.gpg",
> I'm prompted for its password in a separate popup (X) window. With
> epg-gpg-program -> "gpg", Emacs itself prompted for the password.
> That's the behavior I prefer.

The present and the future of GPG (version 2.x and above) is to use
gpg-agent and pinentry. I think there's no way to escape that. And it's
better. But it seems that there are pinentry implementation(s) for
Emacs. There is one in GNU Elpa and I also found this:

https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs

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