Package: emacs25 Version: 25.1+1-4+deb9u1 (I've no idea if this is a bug in Emacs or GnuPG, so the choice of package is somewhat arbitrary. Apologies in advance if I'm pointing the wrong way.)
I am having huge difficulty entering passphrases for GPG-encrypted files via Emacs. The behaviors I've seen are: 1. Trying to open a passphrase-protected file (with C-x C-f), an ASCII-art popup window appears and invites me to enter a passphrase. But keystrokes don’t always register, making it hard to enter it. I don’t know where the lost keystrokes are going (concerning since they are part of a passphrase). 2. Same as above, but (on a different system) only intermittently. 3. If I C-g out of the above then the popup initially disappears but further keystrokes appear as *, sometimes (but not always) in the middle where the popup was. In fact this behavior seems to persist beyond terminating Emacs; I guess something has opened its terminal and is refusing to let go. 4. Attempt to open a file as above, but (accidentally or deliberately) enter a wrong passphrase. On a subsequent attempt opening the file jumps straight to the error about a wrong passphrase, something apparently having remembered the wrong passphrase (killing gpg-agent resets it). 5. Sometimes Emacs just hangs instead of displaying the popup. (C-g escapes.) Configuration: This is all on Debian stretch (i.e. stable at the time of writing) with Emacs 25. Specific versions below. (Mostly) no X11 display. The X11 passphrase entry widget seems to be more reliable; I’ve only observed issue #5 when using X11. I’ve duplicated emacs and gnupg configuration between machines without completely reliably replicating the behavior. i.e. I’ve not figured out what configuration difference leads to the behavioral difference between the two machines (if indeed it’s anything under my control at all rather than e.g. a timing difference). Moving aside Emacs and GnuPG configuration (i.e. ~/.emacs and ~/.gnupg) still produces the same behaviors. So I don’t think this is due to my configuration (or at least not to easily findable bits of it - pointers to other sources of configuration to experiment with welcome). When not moved aside, as far as I can see all the Emacs configuration I’d expect to be relevant (things matching ‘gpg’, ‘pgp’ or ‘gpa’) is unmodified. ii emacs25 25.1+1-4+deb9u1 amd64 GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ GUI support) ii gnupg 2.1.18-8~deb9u1 amd64 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement ttfn/rjk
