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Add vim help documentation
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michaelavila committed Oct 23, 2015
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*gnupg.txt* transparent editing of gpg encrypted files

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CONTENTS *gnupg-contents*

1. Installation ...................... |gnupg-installation|
2. Commands .......................... |gnupg-commands|
3. Variables ......................... |gnupg-variables|
4. Known Issues ...................... |gnupg-knownissues|
5. Credits ........................... |gnupg-credits|
6. License ........................... |gnupg-license|

INSTALLATION *gnupg-installation*

Copy the gnupg.vim file to the $HOME/.vim/plugin directory. Refer to
':help add-plugin', ':help add-global-plugin' and ':help runtimepath' for more
details about Vim plugins.

From "man 1 gpg-agent":

...
You should always add the following lines to your .bashrc or whatever
initialization file is used for all shell invocations:

GPG_TTY=`tty`
export GPG_TTY

It is important that this environment variable always reflects the out‐
put of the tty command. For W32 systems this option is not required.
...

Most distributions provide software to ease handling of gpg and gpg-agent.
Examples are keychain or seahorse.

If there are specific actions that should take place when editing a
GnuPG-managed buffer, an autocmd for the User event and GnuPG pattern can
be defined. For example, the following will set 'textwidth' to 72 for all
GnuPG-encrypted buffers:

autocmd User GnuPG setl textwidth=72

This will be triggered before any BufRead or BufNewFile autocmds, and
therefore will not take precedence over settings specific to any filetype
that may get set.

COMMANDS *gnupg-commands*

*GPGEditRecipients*
:GPGEditRecipients Opens a scratch buffer to change the list of
recipients. Recipients that are unknown (not
in your public key) are highlighted and have
a prepended "!". Closing the buffer makes
the changes permanent.

*GPGViewRecipients*
:GPGViewRecipients Prints the list of recipients.

*GPGEditOptions*
:GPGEditOptions Opens a scratch buffer to change the
options for encryption (symmetric,
asymmetric, signing). Closing the buffer
makes the changes permanent.

WARNING: There is no check of the entered
options, so you need to know what you are
doing.

*GPGViewOptions*
:GPGViewOptions Prints the list of options.

VARIABLES *gnupg-variables*

*GPGExecutable*
If set used as gpg executable, otherwise the system chooses what is run
when "gpg" is called. Defaults to "gpg --trust-model always".

*GPGUseAgent*
If set to 0 a possible available gpg-agent won't be used. Defaults to 1.

*GPGPreferSymmetric*
If set to 1 symmetric encryption is preferred for new files. Defaults to 0.

*GPGPreferArmor*
If set to 1 armored data is preferred for new files. Defaults to 0
unless a "*.asc" file is being edited.

*GPGPreferSign*
If set to 1 signed data is preferred for new files. Defaults to 0.

*GPGDefaultRecipients*
If set, these recipients are used as defaults when no other recipient is
defined. This variable is a Vim list. Default is unset.

*GPGPossibleRecipients*
If set, these contents are loaded into the recipients dialog. This
allows to add commented lines with possible recipients to the list,
which can be uncommented to select the actual recipients. Default is
unset. Example:

let g:GPGPossibleRecipients=[
\"Example User <example@example.com>",
\"Other User <otherexample@example.com>"
\]


*GPGUsePipes*
If set to 1, use pipes instead of temporary files when interacting with
gnupg. When set to 1, this can cause terminal-based gpg agents to not
display correctly when prompting for passwords. Defaults to 0.

*GPGHomedir*
If set, specifies the directory that will be used for GPG's homedir. This
corresponds to gpg's --homedir option. This variable is a Vim
string. Default is unset.

*GPGFilePattern*
If set, overrides the default set of file patterns that determine whether this
plugin will be activated. Defaults to '*.\(gpg\|asc\|pgp\)'.

KNOWN ISSUES *gnupg-knownissues*

In some cases gvim can't decrypt files

This is caused by the fact that a running gvim has no TTY and thus gpg is
not able to ask for the passphrase by itself. This is a problem for Windows
and Linux versions of gvim and could not be solved unless a "terminal
emulation" is implemented for gvim. To circumvent this you have to use any
combination of gpg-agent and a graphical pinentry program:

- gpg-agent only:
you need to provide the passphrase for the needed key to gpg-agent
in a terminal before you open files with gvim which require this key.

- pinentry only:
you will get a popup window every time you open a file that needs to
be decrypted.

- gpgagent and pinentry:
you will get a popup window the first time you open a file that
needs to be decrypted.

CREDITS *gnupg-credits*

- Mathieu Clabaut for inspirations through his vimspell.vim script.
- Richard Bronosky for patch to enable ".pgp" suffix.
- Erik Remmelzwaal for patch to enable windows support and patient beta
testing.
- Lars Becker for patch to make gpg2 working.
- Thomas Arendsen Hein for patch to convert encoding of gpg output.
- Karl-Heinz Ruskowski for patch to fix unknown recipients and trust model
and patient beta testing.
- Giel van Schijndel for patch to get GPG_TTY dynamically.
- Sebastian Luettich for patch to fix issue with symmetric encryption an set
recipients.
- Tim Swast for patch to generate signed files.
- James Vega for patches for better '*.asc' handling, better filename
escaping and better handling of multiple keyrings.

LICENSE *gnupg-license*

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-2.0.txt