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Tip: transparent editing of gpg encrypted files with vim

January 29th, 2010 by

If you are vim user and also use gpg to encrypt stuff, you might appreciate that you can teach vim to transparently open gpg encrypted files with vim gnupg plugin. Just install vim-plugin-gnupg from Contrib repository:

# zypper install vim-plugin-gnupg

Also, you should add following two lines to your .bashrc to make the plugin work properly:
GPG_TTY=`tty`
export GPG_TTY

Then, if you tell vim to open gpg encrypted file, it will ask for passphrase, transparently decrypts it and after you make changes, it will encrypt the file again.

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5 Responses to “Tip: transparent editing of gpg encrypted files with vim”

  1. Federico Lucifredi (F2)
    January 29, 2010 at 14:52 |

    very nice one! Thanks!

  2. Choeger
    January 29, 2010 at 15:02 |

    Ah, nice feature!
    I store all my passwords in single gpg encrypted files.

    But what/where is the Contrib repository?
    It’s not listed there:

    http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories

    nor there:

    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/

  3. Wolfgang
    January 29, 2010 at 20:31 |

    Hmm, I do that since years with a couple of lines in .vimrc. Why is there a plugin needed?

    • Petr Uzel
      January 30, 2010 at 10:23 |

      For people who can’t/don’t want to implement it themseves? The plugin is nothing else than tested few lines of vimscript code after all.