vi a gpg file?

Kevin D. Clark kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com
Wed Jul 16 16:33:31 EDT 2003


mike ledoux <mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu> writes:

> Eh.  Many 'vi's keep a copy of the current buffer in a temporary
> file on disk, so even this method doesn't ensure that the cleartext
> will not be saved.

If, for example, you were using vim, you could invoke the editor with
"-n" to get around this problem.

Come to think of it, this would solve the encryption side of the
problem as well.

Regards,

--kevin
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