Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

>> Roughly speaking, when Emacs is run in a console (i.e. as a curses
>> program), it monopolizes terminal input and output.  I don't know of
>> any way to call the curses version of pinentry, have it temporarily
>> "take over" the terminal, and return control to Emacs once it's done.
>
> Well, if Emacs just "sleeps" while it waits for gpg to finish, then we
> can assume that pinentry has finished using the screen as well.
>
> accept-process-output has a just-this-one argument which causes emacs
> to wait without reading the keyboard (it will still run timers though).

I don't think it works like that under curses (maybe you know
something I don't, tho).