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28.2; bookmark context strings in encrypted files

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016 <at> gmail.com>, 57856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57856: 28.2; bookmark context strings in encrypted files
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:18:02 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> But, to be honest, I'm not even sure if this being optional is
>> particularly meaningful.  Do you see any use case where one would
>> actually want to store unencrypted context of an encrypted file?
>
> I could imagine somebody just .gpg-ing most of their files on principle
> without them really being "secret", and wanting the bookmark feature to
> work properly (and for that you have to have the context).
>
> But that's probably a very unusual setup, so perhaps just setting
> bookmark-search-size to 0 in these buffers is the best (and least
> annoying) way to go.  And if somebody wants to override this, they can
> do it from some hook...

JFTR, there's not only gpg encryption. We have also tramp-crypt.el,
which let users encrypt all their files on a remote host. Those files
shall be handled similar, when it comes to implementation.

See (info "(tramp) Keeping files encrypted")

Best regards, Michael.

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