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Is there a way to open a GnuPG encrypted file with neovim so that one can read/edit it and on write the file is re-encrypted?
This is possible via vim-gnupg in classic vim but has not been ported to neovim. I cannot use the gpg-agent hack as I do not have X11 installed on the remote machine I wish to use this on.
I did a little research and it seems that the only option right now is the one mentioned by @grodzik: you need to configure gpg-agent. Quoting Thiago de Arruda (Neovim lead developer):
I'm a long time vim-gnupg user and have been using it with neovim since day 1. I never had problems because I use gpg-agent which by defaults displays a x11 prompt to get the password (the GPG_TTY warning can be safely ignored).
In the same thread the vim-pgp author has shared his progress on making the plug-in compatible with Neovim. I think it will take a while but lately he has been contributing to Neovim (in fact the last Neovim commit is authored by him) so it's just matter of time.
vim 8.1.3741 but nvim v0.6.1 cannot open and decrypt it.
gpg-agentas suggested by tarruda (NeoVim author) in that thread from Github you linked?set shellpipein Vim, you'll see similar problems. I've been contemplating whether it would be better to write a new plugin for neovim, since the current one would need a fair amount of refactoring to work nicely with neovim.