bug#18811: 25.0.50; Saving or visitting files with ".gpg" extension

[Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:45:46 +0200 Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> DM> Recipe 1:
> DM>   emacs -Q
> DM>   C-x C-w f . g p g RET
>
> DM> The file is not saved.  Generated Messages:
> DM>   Saving file c:/mingw/bin/f.gpg...
> DM>   Opening output file: Searching for program, no such file or directory, gpg
>
> DM> Recipe 2:
> DM>   echo hello > f.gpg
> DM>   emacs -Q
> DM>   C-x C-f f . g p g RET
>
> DM> The file is not visited.  Generated Message:
> DM>   epa-file--find-file-not-found-function: Opening input file:
> DM> Searching for program, no such file or directory, gpg

Those are basically the same behavior as jka-compr, when gzip is not
installed.  One difference is that epa-file doesn't open an empty buffer
(it is intentional: see bug#6568).

> I can confirm the bug. I don't know if the right place to fix this is in
> the EPA handlers themselves or one level up (partly it depends on how
> tightly Emacs wants to be integrated with EPA/EPG by default).
>
> CC to Daiki Ueno. I have refrained from digging deeper until we hear
> from him.

I don't think this is a bug.  For 2, you can use M-x
find-file-literally.  For 1, oh, I don't know how to inhibit file
handlers when saving.