I recently stumbled on this blog post covering how to transparently encrypt and de-crypt *.gpg
files:
http://blog.endpoint.com/2012/05/vim-working-with-encryption.html
The gist is to add this to your .vimrc
file:
" Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files. " By Wouter Hanegraaff " see: http://blog.endpoint.com/2012/05/vim-working-with-encryption.html " 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 " (If you use tcsh, you may need to alter this line.) 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 " (If you use tcsh, you may need to alter this line.) 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 augroup END