Re: Bug in pgg-gpg-process-region

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) schrieb:
>
>> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) writes:
>>
>>> And exactly this call fails as soon as there is a $ sign in the
>>> passphrase. I do not know in fact wether that has anything to do with
>>> shell expansion. However, I just created a throw-away-key with the
>>> passphrase "Hallo", and I could sign without an error; with my real one,
>>> I still cannot.
>>
>> I presume shell quoting issues.  
>
> No it seems it's rather character encoding.

Yeah, I saw another message.  But try the following two commands in a
shell some day and then you will see why I thought it might be a
shell quoting issue:

    echo "foo$HOME"
    echo 'foo$HOME'

>> You can start a process from within
>> Emacs with start-process.  I suggest that you use M-x ielm RET to
>> execute Lisp statements.  Then you can do the start-process.  Store
>> the result in a variable.  Then you can use that process to send it
>> some data using process-send-string.
>
> I do not understand anything of this. What should I do? M-x ielm RET and
> then type the lines above? Why not eval-region?

It's a matter of taste, mostly.  I like the way that ielm presents me
the input and output.

In principle, eval-region or M-: should also work.

>> (setq x (start-process "gpg-test" (get-buffer-create "*gpg-test*")
>>                        "gpg" "arg1" "arg2" ...))
>> (process-send-string x "pass$phrase\n")
>>
>> Something like this.  Maybe you can snarf the start-process thingy
>> from the Gnus Lisp code.
>
> It's start-process-region.

OK.
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