On Tue, Feb 25 2025, David Masterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have org-crypt mostly working, but a couple of things annoy me and I
> may look into fixing them after checking here to see if they are already
> fixed:
>
> 1. If you enter a bad password (even a blank password) to
> org-decrypt-ent*, how do you tell Emacs to forget the password so
> that you can enter the right one?
Does
M-x auth-source-forget-all-cached RET
work for you?
> 1.1. This should be documented in org-crypt-ent* docstrings.
> 1.2. I wound up killing gpg-agent to clear the password, but this can't
> be right.
(info "(gnupg) Agent Signals")
You can flush passwords from the agent by
kill -s SIGHUP <pid of gpg-agent>
e.g. for bash
kill -s SIGHUP $(ps -C gpg-agent -o user,pid | awk '/USERNAME/{print $2}')
> 2. Org Crypt only encrypts things automatically after an entry has
> been encrypted. Decrypting the entry is done with org-decrypt
> which should be mention in the Org Manual section on Org Crypt.
> 3. What all the (user visible) Org Crypt functions and variables are
> should be in the Indexes of the Org Manual.
