Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs\r
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+On Wed, Jul 10 2013, Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net> wrote:\r
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+> Just in case anyone is interested, I wrote a simple pinentry-emacs\r
+> script, that uses emacsclient to ask inside emacs for the password.\r
+>\r
+> Probably not secure, but I'm the only one accessing this host.\r
+>\r
+> https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs\r
+>\r
+> Finally things seem to work reliably :)\r
+\r
+Hoo, using emacsclient is a pretty novel idea to work around the\r
+"problem".\r
+\r
+The TERM=dumb is not the only problem with pinentry-curses:\r
+/dev/tty is set up by emacs and it doesn't passthrough input\r
+to the pinentry program. The orignal tty (like /dev/pts/2) emacs\r
+is running is available in TTY environment variable but emacs would\r
+compete with the input...\r
+\r
+... these are my recollections of the problems -- In one \r
+Scientific Linux 6 system I am using has gpg2 installed -- running\r
+`emacs foo.org.gpg` fails miserably due to these problems. I'll wait\r
+until gpg2 comes into more widespread use and align to the methods\r
+that prevail there...\r
+\r
+> Greetings,\r
+>\r
+> Peter\r
+\r
+Tomi\r