On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 1:33 AM, andrew fabbro <and...@fabbro.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 12:02 AM, <thornton.rich...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I live in NJ. Should I be this paranoid, that every file I edit should > be >> encrypted? >> Who has time for this type of craziness? > > Well, no one. I encrypt very few files.
I think that's relevant. > But keeping one's passwords and related administrivia safe, preventing > unencrypted versions/tempfiles from accidentally being captured by running > backups, etc. is hardly a rare use case. Let's draw a venn diagram of uses of vi and uses of a text editor capable of directly writing encrypted files. (Don't get me wrong. When I first read your original question, I was thinking, yeah, I might want one of those ./) > pwsafe (referring to the nox11 version) is a fine program but comes up a > bit short if you want to include notes that are more than a brief comment, > or what you want to save is not password/account-related. That's really all > I was describing. > [...] Do one thing, do it well. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to prove correctness. Simple text editors are not hard to write, especially if you decide to not deal with variable width typefaces and such. I'd whip one up for you, but right now I'd probably be writing it in forth. 8-* Of course, gpg reads from standard input, so ... -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.
