Re: encrypting a single file
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 01:33, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:01:41PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
> > On November 4, 2002 06:03 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > Here is the script for VIM which automate GNUPG.
> >
> > Thank you for all the advice! I went with the GPG in vim - since it's
> > easy as well, I figured I might as well use the strong encryption.
> >
> > That's cool that vim also has a built-in encryption feature.
>
> No... not quite.
>
> VIM does not have build-in encryption feature. You need gnupg package
> to offer it. Any editor with some smart scripting support shall be able to
> do this (emacs, of course. I suppose mcedit in mc should be able to do
> this too.)
Well, VIM *has* buid-in encryption out of the box.
You do not need any other package installed. And as far as I can tell,
this is true for all platforms, vim runs on.
Start vim and read all about it with
:help -x
:help encryption
-- Michael
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