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   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   ** 07.01.20 - 22:04, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:   
      
      
    WvV>But you just meant the 'gpg' command line util.   
      
   Correct.  Pure gpg.exe   
      
      
    AA>> I start to type my message, but there is no obvious way to save it.   
      
    WvV>That's right. You have to tell it on the command line with the correct   
    WvV>options and commands what it needs to do with what you type.   
      
   Update:  I *can* dump the contents of my clipboard in that area.  But how     
   do I save the results and start the encryption process?   
      
   If gpg.exe is allowed without initial arguments/options, I am surprised     
   that it runs at all.   
      
      
    AA>> Nope.  The gpg editor does not dump the contents that I have in   
    AA>> clipboard.   
      
   My mistake. Corrected above.  Right-click-Paste dumps the clipboard into     
   the live editor window.   
      
      
    WvV>It's what you tell cmd.exe to do with what's in the clipboard... Stop   
    WvV>calling it the 'gpg editor'! It's not an editor. It's a command line util   
    WvV>that gets its input from "stdin" that's provided to it by the shell   
    WvV>(cmd.exe) it's running in.   
      
   OK, I get that.  But I launch gpg.exe, it runs and is "Waiting for input".     
   It does not fail. It sits there waiting for the message content. Fine.     
   Then, how do I finish that process?   
      
   If it expects all parameters/arguments at the command-line, then I am     
   surprised that it runs at all.  If using it without arguments makes not     
   sense then I would expect it to issue a warning and exit immediately.   
      
      
    WvV>I can have it do something interactively without using input or output   
    WvV>files. (But it's not a "live editor"! ;))   
      
   It behaves like a very basic editor.  Backspace works.  Insert works. IT     
   continues a "message line" until I press enter. Then, I can continue on     
   another line.   
      
    WvV>For instance:   
      
    WvV>wilfred@wilnux5:~> gpg -sea -r 'August Abolins'   
      
   Noted.   
      
    WvV>Use this key anyway? (y/N) y   
    WvV>Hi how are you doing?   
      
   OK. I started gpg with -->C:\gpg -sea -r wilfred   
      
   Then I got the key prompt like above.   
   Then I start typing a message.   
      
   But how do I tell the program I am done?   
      
   When I perform a ^d, it just sits there.   
      
   I don't know how to trigger the prompt for a passphrase.   
      
      
    WvV>After the message about the passphrase, I get a seperate window to enter   
    WvV>my passphrase. And I typed a ^d, after my "How are you doing?" line, to   
    WvV>end my input (to the shell it's running in).   
      
   I guess I need to see someone doing it.   
      
   I know how to use gpg with pre-written message files, and produce armoured     
   output files.  But I want to understand why the live, type as you go     
   method does not work for me.   
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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