Password-store-menu

A more convenient UI for password-store.el

This emacs package improves on the user interface for password-store.el (see https://www.passwordstore.org/), adding a friendly transient pop-up.

Here’s what that looks like:

Features

The package adds a bunch of useful features, including:

• A minor mode for editing/inserting password files
• Changes to password files are auto-committed to git
• Easy browsing and viewing of entries
• Inserting multi-line passwords
• Generating passwords with arguments (e.g. length, no-symbols)
• Showing password QR code inside emacs in text or image format
• Generating QR Codes for fields as well as secrets
• Grep with support for emacs grep mode

Features to be added

I have some plans to support the following in the future:

• otp
• multiple password folders
• adding files to the password store
• add command to close all buffers visiting password entries

QR Code support

On some systems the command-line utility qrencode is automatically installed with pass. If qrencode is in your path, this will be detected and used.

If you dont have qrencode or prefer elisp-native encoding, you can install qrencode.el instead, and that will be used.

Setup

This package is available through MELPA. You can use “package-install” to install it.

After installing, make sure to “require” the package and call “password-store-menu-enable”, which will install the keybinding for password-store-menu, and make sure that your password files will be opened in a special edit mode.

(require 'password-store-menu)

(setopt
 ;; Optionally set a custom key, default is C-c p
 password-store-menu-key  "C-c p"
 ;; Auto commit can be turned off, default is t
 password-store-menu-edit-auto-commit t)

;; Binds the key and enables password-store-menu-edit-mode
(password-store-menu-enable)

Use-package

With use-package it looks like this:

(use-package password-store-menu
  :ensure t
  :config (password-store-menu-enable)
  :custom (password-store-menu-key "C-c p"))

Usage

By default, the password-store popup menu will be bound to the key C-c p. You can configure this (see above).

The following menu items are available:

Use

Key	Name	Description
b	Browse	Open the URL field in a browser and
c or p	Copy Secret	Copy the secret into the clipboard
f	Copy Field	Select a field from the entry and copy it
o	Browse and Copy	Open the URL field in a browser and copy the secret into the clipboard
v	View	Open entry in view-mode
q	QR Code	View QR code for secret in an Emacs buffer

Change

Key	Name	Description
D	Delete	Delete password entry
e	Edit	Edit entry by visiting it
E	Edit (pass)	Edit entry by calling “pass edit”
i	Insert	Insert a new password entry (single line: secret only)
I	Insert multiline	Insert a new entry - open a buffer to create a multiline file
g	Generate	Generate a new password
r	Rename	Rename an entry

VC

Key	Name	Description
V=	Diff	Show VC diff
Vp	Pull	Pull from VC
VP	Push	Push to VC

Discover

Key	Name	Description
d	Dired	Open password store folder with dired
G	Grep	Search password entries for text patterns