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interesting. mastodon.el also uses plstore, so if it works (saving your credentials) your machine's encryption should be working. but the auth process for the two services is totally different, so I had to write the lem.el auth code from scratch. I can take a look at it v soon, I'm keen to have any auth issues sorted out asap.
it'd help if you cd describe when the error message appears, or what exactly you do that causes it.
actually a backtrace would be most useful to track down the error.
you cd also try opening the plstore file in your .Emacs.d folder and encrypting / decrypting it.
thanks!
I can see posts in lem! I guessed correctly that issue with GPG was that it really, really wanted a tty, so I tried logging in from
emacs -nwand that worked. Once the credentials are stored I can use lem from GUI Emacs! Apparently I need to install some markdown executable... I faked it withln -s /bin/cat ~/bin/markdownand everything is hideous but useable! 😛I tried posting this comment from lem and it seemed to work but I can't seem to see it here, so I'm posting again from the browser. I'm getting closer and closer to lem working and am very excited.
EDIT: spoke too soon, now I get DEcryption errors even in
emacs -nw. Maybe I'm out of my depth here.that's interesting and also pretty frustrating. i didn't think i'd encounter such issues using plstore. are you able to provide a backtrace for the error? it'll show what is calling the encryption functions, and there could be an error before the one displayed. also try manually opening the .plstore file in your .emacs.d directory and encrypt and decrypt it while open. maybe you do just have some plstore problems. / btw, lemmy and lem.el require markdown, so best to install it. the latter requires markdown-mode too.
I think the entire problem is that I had epg-pinentry-mode set to
nil, I changed it to'loopbackand now things seem to be working properly. I don't understand why lem.el uses a passphrase with GPG while it seems like mastodon.el doesn't. Let's see if posting this via lem.el works!EDIT: Yep, it worked and editing comments works too! By the way, tons of unbound commands like lem-ui-edit-comment deserve key bindings.