Using Gnupg from the command line with no arguments

[Charly Avital]

Michael wrote on 11/26/13, 11:46 PM:
>  Hi, I am a new GPG user.  (New to the command line, that is.)  I know
> that if you type "gpg" without any arguments in a command line it starts
> a primitive sort of text editor where you can type a message that you
> later encrypt, sign, etc.   How do you tell the text editor when you are
> done with the message?  I have actually been flipping madly through the
> GPG documentation; I am not sure this is scenario is exactly covered.
>  Can someone point me in the right direction?  Using GPG Tools on Mac OS
> 10.9 and just trying to get more command line fluent.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
>  
> 
> Mike  

Mike,
after I type gpg without arguments I get:
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...

and when I type immediately after ControlC, I get:
^C
gpg: Interrupt caught ... exiting


I'm not sure this answers your query.
Charly

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