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26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el

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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 27445 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 06:08:18 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

>> Through the graphical prompt, or using the epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback'
>> setting.
>
> When a user doesn't want a graphical prompt (I don't, because it freezes
> Emacs, and I use Emacs to get my password), how can he know that he must
> configure `epa-pinentry-mode'?  I only found it by making extensive use
> of the debugger.  I didn't even know where to look and which libraries
> were relevant.

Note that it's practically impossible to make it seamlessly work; there
is no way to reliably detect that the 'loopback' pinentry is enabled by
the GnuPG installation.  I don't want to document non-working setup.

Use it at your own risk or blame someone else (the GnuPG upsteam or
downstream package maintainers), really.  I am almost done with this
issue.

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