vi a gpg file?

[Kevin D. Clark]

Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> writes:

> How does that solve the encryption problem?

Ignoring the problem of memory being swapped by the kernel...

> I want to edit an encrypted file.  I don't want a cleartext version
> stored on disk.

vim -n encrypted_file   (you might need to add "-b" here, if the file
                         isn't ascii-armored)
:%!gpg --decrypt
Edit your file to your heart's content
:%!gpg --encrypt
:wq

That's the general idea.

Regards,

--kevin
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