On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:18:50PM +0100, Colin Baxter wrote: > [...] I set the variable > `epa-pinentry-mode' to loopback as in > > #+begin_src elisp > (setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) > #+end_src > > This seems to work. Oh, thanks -- this answers the question I only half-posed :) BTW: the variable documentation says to use `epg-pinentry-mode' for Emacs versions >= 27.1 Cheers - t