Subject: Re: bug#15553: 24.3.50; epg.el and GnuPG 2.x cause unavoidable pinentry prompts for symmetrically encrypted files

From: Daiki Ueno <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:10:43 +0900

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> 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.

Well, is that a realistic use case?  What do you suppose precisely?

I thought that you meant like:

  $ emacs -nw file.gpg

or even

  $ emacs -batch -l file.el.gpg

on a remote terminal.  Either works fine here with pinentry-curses.