[PATCH] Add inside-Emacs mode to GUI pinentry programs

Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Tue Jun 16 13:10:30 CEST 2015


At Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:09:09 +0200,
Werner Koch wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 19:27, neal at walfield.org said:
> 
> >> should do this.  But be prepared that soon someone will ask for a
> >> --keep-inside-emacs option to make it really similar on how we handle
> >> DISPLAY.
> >
> > In what situation does that make sense?  Don't we always want to use
> > the DISPLAY of the gpg process and not the gpg-agent?  I think the
> 
> Some people like to stick it to a certain display (or screen(1)).  This
> is the reason for the --keep-display option of gpg-agent.

In the screen case, it would be nice if pinentry-curses / pinentry-tty
could emit a bell when a prompt is shown.  I've opened
https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2013 for this idea.

:) Neal



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