Wiki: Vim Gpg

Here's an example of some .vimrc commands to add to enable editing of GPG encrypted files.

" Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files.
" By Wouter Hanegraaff <wouter@blub.net>
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    " First make sure nothing is written to /.viminfo while editing
    " an encrypted file.
    autocmd BufReadPre?,FileReadPre?      *.gpg set viminfo=
    " We don't want a swap file, as it writes unencrypted data to disk
    autocmd BufReadPre?,FileReadPre?      *.gpg set noswapfile
    " Switch to binary mode to read the encrypted file
    autocmd BufReadPre?,FileReadPre?      *.gpg set bin
    autocmd BufReadPre?,FileReadPre?      *.gpg let ch_save = &ch|set ch=2
    autocmd BufReadPost?,FileReadPost?    *.gpg ','?!gpg --decrypt 2> /dev/null
    " Switch to normal mode for editing
    autocmd BufReadPost?,FileReadPost?    *.gpg set nobin
    autocmd BufReadPost?,FileReadPost?    *.gpg let &ch = ch_save|unlet ch_save
    autocmd BufReadPost?,FileReadPost?    *.gpg execute ":doautocmd BufReadPost? " . expand("%:r")

    " Convert all text to encrypted text before writing
    autocmd BufWritePre?,FileWritePre?    *.gpg   ','?!gpg --default-recipient-self -ae 2>/dev/null
    " Undo the encryption so we are back in the normal text, directly
    " after the file has been written.
    autocmd BufWritePost?,FileWritePost?    *.gpg   u
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