On 07/01/2020 12:59 p.m., Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins wrote:

 WvV> So a cmd.exe is started here, with 'gpg' as command.

 WvV> C: \>> gpg

 WvV> Did you have the option to type arguments here, or was the
 WvV>  automatic?

I just type gpg + ENTER.  Apparently that is an option.  ;)


 AA>> gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you
 AA>> mean... gpg: Go ahead and type your message...

...and then it sits there waiting for the message to be typed.

 AA>> This is a private message...
 AA>> ^C

I start to type my message, but there is no obvious way to save it.


 WvV> To do something valid here you will have to enter or paste
 WvV> something that gpg can understand. So either a ascii encoded
 WvV> key or pgp message. Something
 WvV> that starts with the usual "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" etc...
 WvV> (You can paste by right clicking in the window or the window
 WvV> top bar, and selecting paste).

Nope.  The gpg editor does not dump the contents that I have in clipboard.


 WvV> You pressed ctrl-c, I think, before entering anything that
 WvV> would be meaningfull content for 'gpg'...

Yes, ^C ultimately killed the session.  But none of the --commands on a
line by line basis did anything either.

The gpg editor is a mystery to me.

Doesn't your linux version have the live editor feature too?

 ../|ug

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