I like to write small notes in simple files with vim. Sometimes I want to encrypt these files, so that not everyone can everything read in there. I was looking for a solution and found this.
augroup aencrypted
au!
" First make sure nothing is written to ~/.viminfo while editing
" an encrypted file.
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.asc set viminfo=
" We don't want a swap file, as it writes unencrypted data to disk
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.asc set noswapfile
" Switch to binary mode to read the encrypted file
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.asc set bin
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.asc let ch_save = &ch|set ch=2
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.asc '[,']!sh -c "gpg --decrypt 2> /dev/null"
" Switch to normal mode for editing
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.asc set nobin
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.asc let &ch = ch_save|unlet ch_save
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.asc execute ":doautocmd BufReadPost " . expand("%:r")
" Convert all text to encrypted text before writing
autocmd BufWritePre,FileWritePre *.asc '[,']!sh -c "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 *.asc u
augroup END
augroup bencrypted
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 '[,']!sh -c "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 '[,']!sh -c "gpg --default-recipient-self --armor -ev 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
augroup END
Then you can create a new file with vim YOURNOTE.gpg. This will be encrypted when saving and decrypt when opened.
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