On Wed, Jul 10 2013, Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net> wrote: > Just in case anyone is interested, I wrote a simple pinentry-emacs > script, that uses emacsclient to ask inside emacs for the password. > > Probably not secure, but I'm the only one accessing this host. > > https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs > > Finally things seem to work reliably :) Hoo, using emacsclient is a pretty novel idea to work around the "problem". The TERM=dumb is not the only problem with pinentry-curses: /dev/tty is set up by emacs and it doesn't passthrough input to the pinentry program. The orignal tty (like /dev/pts/2) emacs is running is available in TTY environment variable but emacs would compete with the input... ... these are my recollections of the problems -- In one Scientific Linux 6 system I am using has gpg2 installed -- running `emacs foo.org.gpg` fails miserably due to these problems. I'll wait until gpg2 comes into more widespread use and align to the methods that prevail there... > Greetings, > > Peter Tomi