GnuPG incompatible with the 80x25 terminal?

Anton Shepelev anton.txt at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 13:14:05 CEST 2026


Werner Koch to Anton Shepelev:

> > may I request to please add pagination to all output
> > from --edit-key interactive sessions?
>
> I can understand your request but it is not likley that
> this will be implemnted soon.  But who knows.  Feature
> request is
>
>    https://dev.gnupg.org/T8445
>
> (in case you can access our server)

Thank you, Werner.  Yes, I can access the gnupg bug tracker
server.  There, you remark that

> Of course this needs to be an option because for sure
> there are scripts using canned command sequences (which
> they actually should not do).

I those commands are executed by invoking gpg with
`--command-fd', then that option or `--batch' could be used
to suppress pagination, assuming an interactive session by
default.

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