A safe text editor

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

On Mi, Sep 05 2012, notizblock wrote:

> Am 2012-09-05 09:39, schrieb antispam06 at sent.at:
>
>> Could you recommend a safe text editor, in the sense it does protect the
>> edited contents in memory, but, most important, on the disk (temp files
>> and such). Having functions to interact with gnupg would be even better.
>
> You could use vim with the gnupg.vim [1] plugin. It turns off swapfiles
> and viminfo by default and handles filenames with a ".gpg", ".pgp" or
> ".asc" suffix.
>
> [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645

If you prefer Emacs over vim, I suggest the EasyPG Assistant:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/epa.html

Best wishes
Jens