From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:07:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87h8tqg30t.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> References: <87vano7ihu.fsf@drachen> <878tfy15lw.fsf@web.de> <83vaiz63f3.fsf@gnu.org> <83zi7jgbka.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511075355 8414 195.159.176.226 (19 Nov 2017 07:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 07:09:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 27445@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 19 08:09:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJj0-0001Yn-41 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:09:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52142 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJj7-0000uz-9O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:09:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJj0-0000uc-N0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:09:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJiw-0001CU-2l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJiw-0001CG-0K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJiv-0001sK-Pm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:09:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Daiki Ueno Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 07:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27445 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27445-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27445.15110752877145 (code B ref 27445); Sun, 19 Nov 2017 07:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27445) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Nov 2017 07:08:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46734 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJi3-0001rB-FR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51706) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJi1-0001qi-Pv for 27445@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJht-0000T7-Bm for 27445@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:08:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJht-0000Sy-8u; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:07:57 -0500 Original-Received: from du-a.org ([219.94.251.20]:40768 helo=localhost.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eGJhr-0008SY-QS; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:07:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83zi7jgbka.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:50:45 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140081 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Ping! Sorry for not responding to it earlier. >> Daiki, could you please add some user-level documentation about this >> package? I would rather not document it, because the package should be transparent to user. If it doesn't work, you are using either GnuPG 2.0 or some stupid distro package neglecting upstream's default (only Debian, as far as I know). Anyway; the package (and the corresponding change in GnuPG and pinentry) was intended to provide a way to input passphrase through Emacs with GnuPG 2.0. However for some reason the change was only implemented in GnuPG >= 2.1 and didn't get backported to GnuPG 2.0. >> > I discovered by accident that >> > >> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp >> > (setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) >> > #+end_src >> > >> > does what I want. This is indeed a correct solution if we only care about GnuPG >= 2.1. Fortunately, GnuPG 2.0 will be unsupported in the next month. After that we should be able to obsolete or remove the package. Regards, -- Daiki Ueno