Hi!
I've been using Gjots2 for the above and am very happy with it... except that the last release no longer support asking for the PGP passphrase when opening an encrypted file. I did get a patch here (thank you very much), I also did file a bug but get tired of compiling or using an older package version at every Fedora release.
So that's it, I'm willing to move on! I found CryptoTE as an alternative but again last package I found from their website is for Fedora 14 and of course there is no package under the current F30 repositories.
I have to say that I like the structured Gjots2 layout with the ability to create different pages for different topics. So something similar would be nice.
Does anyone have any suggestion for such a "simple" text editor?
Thank you very much.
Fred
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I didn't expect this, but passwordstore.org is actually a great general-purpose notebook-style application. It's intended (and I do use it) as a password manager. It's designed to be super UNIXy, so basically the ``pass`` command creates a directory for its files (the location is configurable, but it defaults to ~/.pass, but you can maintain any number of them you want, such as ~/.notebook or whatever).
Each file in your pass directory is encrypted with whatever key you configure.
When you use the command ``pass edit mynote.txt``, it decrypts ~/.notebook/mynote.txt`` in RAM, passes it to your EDITOR or VISUAL setting (I use Emacs but I think it can be anything), and then encrypts back to the file.
It's been working really well. Not at all how I expected to use it (I also use it for its intended purpose) but quite effective.
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On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 08:05 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 15:55:09 +0700 Frederic Muller wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestion for such a "simple" text editor?
Simple, probably not, but emacs can probably do anything. I'm sure it must have a pgp module, but I've never needed encryption. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
I didn't expect this, but passwordstore.org is actually a great general-purpose notebook-style application. It's intended (and I do use it) as a password manager. It's designed to be super UNIXy, so basically the ``pass`` command creates a directory for its files (the location is configurable, but it defaults to ~/.pass, but you can maintain any number of them you want, such as ~/.notebook or whatever).
Each file in your pass directory is encrypted with whatever key you configure.
When you use the command ``pass edit mynote.txt``, it decrypts ~/.notebook/mynote.txt`` in RAM, passes it to your EDITOR or VISUAL setting (I use Emacs but I think it can be anything), and then encrypts back to the file.
It's been working really well. Not at all how I expected to use it (I also use it for its intended purpose) but quite effective.
-seth
HI!
Thank you for the 2 responses. Quickly I indeed did find both Emacs and Vim have extension which can do the job but was more into a graphical solution.
Pass indeed seems interesting. I will look into it, so thank you for that.
Doing further research I also found a non-free app which is cross-platform called Sublimetext, which works with a plugin, but haven't figured out how to get this hierarchised tree structure layout yet.
I am also looking into Geany, which is also supposed to work with a plugin, but I need to fiddle a bit more with decryption as it's missing something (probably from my side). There also seems to be a plugin for the tree structure.
Thank you again for the help.
Fred
On 8/9/19 2:31 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
I didn't expect this, but passwordstore.org is actually a great general-purpose notebook-style application. It's intended (and I do use it) as a password manager. It's designed to be super UNIXy, so basically the ``pass`` command creates a directory for its files (the location is configurable, but it defaults to ~/.pass, but you can maintain any number of them you want, such as ~/.notebook or whatever).
Each file in your pass directory is encrypted with whatever key you configure.
When you use the command ``pass edit mynote.txt``, it decrypts ~/.notebook/mynote.txt`` in RAM, passes it to your EDITOR or VISUAL setting (I use Emacs but I think it can be anything), and then encrypts back to the file.
It's been working really well. Not at all how I expected to use it (I also use it for its intended purpose) but quite effective.
-seth
HI!
Thank you for the 2 responses. Quickly I indeed did find both Emacs and Vim have extension which can do the job but was more into a graphical solution.
Pass indeed seems interesting. I will look into it, so thank you for that.
Doing further research I also found a non-free app which is cross-platform called Sublimetext, which works with a plugin, but haven't figured out how to get this hierarchised tree structure layout yet.
I am also looking into Geany, which is also supposed to work with a plugin, but I need to fiddle a bit more with decryption as it's missing something (probably from my side). There also seems to be a plugin for the tree structure.
Where did you find a pgp plugin for Geany?
I use Geany a lot, and having pgp for it could be good.
Oops, resending to list.
On 8/9/19 8:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 8/9/19 2:31 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
I didn't expect this, but passwordstore.org is actually a great general-purpose notebook-style application. It's intended (and I do use it) as a password manager. It's designed to be super UNIXy, so basically the ``pass`` command creates a directory for its files (the location is configurable, but it defaults to ~/.pass, but you can maintain any number of them you want, such as ~/.notebook or whatever).
Each file in your pass directory is encrypted with whatever key you configure.
When you use the command ``pass edit mynote.txt``, it decrypts ~/.notebook/mynote.txt`` in RAM, passes it to your EDITOR or VISUAL setting (I use Emacs but I think it can be anything), and then encrypts back to the file.
It's been working really well. Not at all how I expected to use it (I also use it for its intended purpose) but quite effective.
-seth
HI!
Thank you for the 2 responses. Quickly I indeed did find both Emacs and Vim have extension which can do the job but was more into a graphical solution.
Pass indeed seems interesting. I will look into it, so thank you for that.
Doing further research I also found a non-free app which is cross-platform called Sublimetext, which works with a plugin, but haven't figured out how to get this hierarchised tree structure layout yet.
I am also looking into Geany, which is also supposed to work with a plugin, but I need to fiddle a bit more with decryption as it's missing something (probably from my side). There also seems to be a plugin for the tree structure.
Where did you find a pgp plugin for Geany?
I use Geany a lot, and having pgp for it could be good.
Well, google told me....
On 8/9/19 8:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Oops, resending to list.
On 8/9/19 8:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 8/9/19 2:31 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
I didn't expect this, but passwordstore.org is actually a great general-purpose notebook-style application. It's intended (and I do use it) as a password manager. It's designed to be super UNIXy, so basically the ``pass`` command creates a directory for its files (the location is configurable, but it defaults to ~/.pass, but you can maintain any number of them you want, such as ~/.notebook or whatever).
Each file in your pass directory is encrypted with whatever key you configure.
When you use the command ``pass edit mynote.txt``, it decrypts ~/.notebook/mynote.txt`` in RAM, passes it to your EDITOR or VISUAL setting (I use Emacs but I think it can be anything), and then encrypts back to the file.
It's been working really well. Not at all how I expected to use it (I also use it for its intended purpose) but quite effective.
-seth
HI!
Thank you for the 2 responses. Quickly I indeed did find both Emacs and Vim have extension which can do the job but was more into a graphical solution.
Pass indeed seems interesting. I will look into it, so thank you for that.
Doing further research I also found a non-free app which is cross-platform called Sublimetext, which works with a plugin, but haven't figured out how to get this hierarchised tree structure layout yet.
I am also looking into Geany, which is also supposed to work with a plugin, but I need to fiddle a bit more with decryption as it's missing something (probably from my side). There also seems to be a plugin for the tree structure.
Where did you find a pgp plugin for Geany?
I use Geany a lot, and having pgp for it could be good.
Well, google told me....
As there is no rpm for it, it looks like I would have to build it myself:
https://plugins.geany.org/install.html
Don't have time for that right now.
Den 2019-08-09 kl. 14:53, skrev Robert Moskowitz:
On 8/9/19 8:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Oops, resending to list.
Well, google told me....
As there is no rpm for it, it looks like I would have to build it myself:
https://plugins.geany.org/install.html
Don't have time for that right now.
There is rpm, see:
$ dnf search geany-plugins .. geany-plugins-geanypg.x86_64 : encrypt, decrypt and verify signatures with GnuPG
..
On 8/9/19 9:16 AM, Jon Ingason wrote:
Den 2019-08-09 kl. 14:53, skrev Robert Moskowitz:
On 8/9/19 8:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Oops, resending to list.
Well, google told me....
As there is no rpm for it, it looks like I would have to build it myself:
https://plugins.geany.org/install.html
Don't have time for that right now.
There is rpm, see:
$ dnf search geany-plugins .. geany-plugins-geanypg.x86_64 : encrypt, decrypt and verify signatures with GnuPG
Ah, I was looking for a plugin that had pgp in its name.
I probably should update my key and get new sigs. It is quite old with old algorithm, but well rooted.
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 09:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Ah, I was looking for a plugin that had pgp in its name.
If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the name. But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well. Maybe gpg, too.
On 8/10/19 11:29 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 09:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Ah, I was looking for a plugin that had pgp in its name.
If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the name. But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well. Maybe gpg, too.
Well, sadly....
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all pgp | grep geany [egreshko@meimei ~]$ [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all gpg | grep geany [egreshko@meimei ~]$
So nothing would have come from it.
Then again one could have done "dnf search geany" and scanned the results. Or made a guess and did "dnf search geany | grep encr".
Tim:
If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the name. But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well. Maybe gpg, too.
Ed Greshko:
Well, sadly....
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all pgp | grep geany [egreshko@meimei ~]$ [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all gpg | grep geany [egreshko@meimei ~]$
So nothing would have come from it.
But, if you search for gnupg, it does. Of course, you need to know about that permutation of pgp-related things. I only do because I've used something the past that was named that way. In my opinion, gpg- and pgp- related packages need both those keywords in their metadata (that could be a bugzilla report).
Then again one could have done "dnf search geany" and scanned the results. Or made a guess and did "dnf search geany | grep encr".
In this case (geany), you would have to have known about an obscurely related package, in the first place. Though a generic search against a keyword like encrypt is a fair expectation.
On 8/10/19 1:30 PM, Tim via users wrote:
Tim:
If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the name. But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well. Maybe gpg, too.
Ed Greshko:
Well, sadly....
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all pgp | grep geany [egreshko@meimei ~]$ [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all gpg | grep geany [egreshko@meimei ~]$
So nothing would have come from it.
But, if you search for gnupg, it does. Of course, you need to know about that permutation of pgp-related things. I only do because I've used something the past that was named that way. In my opinion, gpg- and pgp- related packages need both those keywords in their metadata (that could be a bugzilla report).
Sure, if one knew they should also have to check gnupg. You had suggested 2 possibilities, and I was just indicating that they would have come up empty. This would leave one unfamiliar with the other permutations no closer to finding what they wanted.
Then again one could have done "dnf search geany" and scanned the results. Or made a guess and did "dnf search geany | grep encr".
In this case (geany), you would have to have known about an obscurely related package, in the first place. Though a generic search against a keyword like encrypt is a fair expectation.
I don't feel "obscurity" comes into play here. The poster is looking for something specific to geany and encryption. Doing a "dnf search geany" would have yielded a bunch of results of which 19 are "plugins" and the question was "Where did you find a pgp plugin for Geany? " So, a simple search by eye would have revealed it.
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