Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@mrash
Created June 19, 2015 00:17
Show Gist options
  • Save mrash/0f12560983a8c2888c5f to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save mrash/0f12560983a8c2888c5f to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Transparent gpg encryption / decryption with vim (.vimrc hack) - provides a simple command-line alternative to password managers like LastPass
" Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files.
" By Wouter Hanegraaff <wouter@blub.net>
augroup encrypted
au!
" 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
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment