Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi Joakim,

> FWIW, this is what I have in my config regarding Gnupg:
>
> **** GPG
>
>      So, this was a bit of a pain to get working, but now it
> works. For some
>      inexplicable reason, pinentry-emacs isn't built by default on
>      either FreeBSD or Arch, so one has to build it from source, and add
>      =--enable-pinentry-emacs=. Then add "allow-pinentry-emacs" to
>      =~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf=.
>      Then one simply does:
>
>      #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>        (require 'pinentry)
>        (pinentry-start)
>        (setenv "INSIDE_EMACS" "YES")
>      #+END_SRC
> [...]

Thanks for answering!

What is pinentry-emacs - this one?

    https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs

Do you mean I need to install this to be able to use pinentry.el (which,
I found out, already comes with Emacs 25)?


Regards,

Michael.