Re: Missing pinentry-emacs for gpg-agent?

[Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>]

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Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm sorry to steal a potential contribution to Guix, but you could try:
>
> ‘M-x view-emacs-news’:
>
>     * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 25.1
>
>     ** pinentry.el allows GnuPG passphrase to be prompted through the
>     minibuffer instead of a graphical dialog, depending on whether the
>     gpg command is called from Emacs (i.e., INSIDE_EMACS environment
>     variable is set).  This feature requires newer versions of GnuPG
>     (2.1.5 or later) and Pinentry (0.9.5 or later).  To use this
>     feature, add "allow-emacs-pinentry" to "~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf" and
>     reload the configuration with "gpgconf --reload gpg-agent".

Unless I'm mistaken, this won't work without pinentry-emacs when gpg is
used to decrypt data, e.g. `gpg -d FILE`.  I do not know about a
INSIDE_EMACS environment variable.  How is it set?

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Pierre Neidhardt

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