Tip #371: Encrypting a file within vim session and not leaving behind traces.

I was desperately looking for a simple way to encrypt files.
(I find this very useful. Despite all the user permissions you set, it's easy for someone/admin
to do sudo and read your personal files..Many work environments provide users the permission
to sudo or become super user)

Vim let's you encrypt file within the edit session.

:X

Will prompt for encryption key. Enter the encryption key and REMEMBER to save
it using :w. That will encrypt the file.

Try
:help  :X
for more info.

If you don't want to leave behind traces of your edits:
By default, once you finish your vim session, ~/.viminfo will be written with
the  files you edited (marks), commands you entered and possibly what you wrote
(the registers you copied or pasted...). If you don't want such trace to be left behind,
then place the following file in in your .vimrc

set viminfo='0,\"0,\/0,:0,f0


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