| sean finney on Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:30:32 -0500 |
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without knowing too much about emacs, editing sensitive files with
emacs strikes me as a Really Bad Idea. emacs likes to keep all kinds
of state files around in the case that it crashes, and the last thing
you want is your file stored in an unencrypted .file in /tmp or $HOME.
of course perhaps theres a way for emacs to not keep said buffers on
disk? i don't know, i'm a vi user :)
anyway, try
M-1 M-! gpg --decrypt file
which i think does what you want
hth
sean
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:18:24AM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I have a file I want to keep encrypted, but editing it with emacs
> would be nice. I have read that crypt.el should do the trick, but it
> (1) seems outdated, as it seems to want to use crypt, and (2) doesn't
> seem to work for me anyway.
>
> Does anyone keep encrypted files and have a one-step way to view
> and/or edit them?
>
>
> Viewing is easy enough, something like the following (untested) bit of
> bash:
>
> emore() { gpg --decrypt $1 | less; }
>
> I'd like such seamless editing without being forced to hit the disk
> with named, decrypted files, a la
>
> eedit() { gpg --decrypt $1 --output $scratch; emacsclient \
> $scratch; gpg --encrypt $scratch --output $1; }
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B
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