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bug#15553: 24.3.50; epg.el and GnuPG 2.x cause unavoidable pinentry prom


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#15553: 24.3.50; epg.el and GnuPG 2.x cause unavoidable pinentry prompts for symmetrically encrypted files
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 23:05:31 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>> But it calls accept-process-output, so it can still get stuck.
> Yes, but it's not a hard lockup.  I can get out from the loop with C-g.

But if you have no terminal open (yet) on that emacs-server, you can't
hit C-g.

> And actually Emacs 24 has the code to allow pinentry to fallback into
> the curses mode in that case (though the interaction is not very well).

And same as above: there might not be any tty for curses to talk to.


        Stefan





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