From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 06:08:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgixvayl.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> References: <87vano7ihu.fsf@drachen> <878tfy15lw.fsf@web.de> <83vaiz63f3.fsf@gnu.org> <83zi7jgbka.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8tqg30t.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <vz1bmjwvnqv.fsf@gmail.com> <od13757vne6.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <83eford3rw.fsf@gnu.org> <87ine35roo.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <83po8ab9jk.fsf@gnu.org> <od1h8tmp9rk.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <87zi7d7qhx.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511413752 2517 195.159.176.226 (23 Nov 2017 05:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:09:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 27445@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 23 06:09:08 2017 Return-path: <bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> 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 <bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1eHjl6-0000IV-Eq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:08:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ueno@gnu.org>) id 1eHjkV-0005uz-88 for 27445@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ueno@gnu.org>) id 1eHjkV-0005uq-4F; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:08:31 -0500 Original-Received: from du-a.org ([219.94.251.20]:41044 helo=localhost.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from <ueno@gnu.org>) id 1eHjkT-0001AV-SY; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:08:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zi7d7qhx.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Thu, 23 Nov 2017 02:06:34 +0100") 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" <bug-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/bug-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/> List-Post: <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" <bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140261 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/140261> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes: >> Through the graphical prompt, or using the epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback' >> setting. > > When a user doesn't want a graphical prompt (I don't, because it freezes > Emacs, and I use Emacs to get my password), how can he know that he must > configure `epa-pinentry-mode'? I only found it by making extensive use > of the debugger. I didn't even know where to look and which libraries > were relevant. Note that it's practically impossible to make it seamlessly work; there is no way to reliably detect that the 'loopback' pinentry is enabled by the GnuPG installation. I don't want to document non-working setup. Use it at your own risk or blame someone else (the GnuPG upsteam or downstream package maintainers), really. I am almost done with this issue.