Store passwords with vim

Old Snowden Muller said: “To believe in our time, no one can. Sometimes, even to myself. "
I don't believe in myself, and I forget passwords completely.
I don’t trust online password storage services.
There are open source programs for storing passwords for them, but I am not too lazy to install them, keep them, and most of the functions are not needed.

Vim as password manager

• Vim works: in * nix, in Mac OS and Windows
• No need to put additional programs to store passwords.
• Encrypts with: blowfish by default
• Quickly search, delete, add and edit, using all the power of the editor

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To get started, we take VIM version 7.3 and higher (Early versions did not know how to encrypt using blowfish).
And run vim with -x

vim -x password.txt 

VIM will ask for the encryption password:


You can start editing the file and add new accounts, logins and passwords:


If there is a desire to decorate and bring in a beautiful view, take the plugin " vim-table-mode "
The plugin will allow the list to the table style.
Demonstration of the plug-in:


When saving a file, vim shows an encryption algorithm. Make sure it is blowfish.


If you look inside the file, you will see the following picture:

If after such a “peeping” the console got lost, then type reset.

The last left. How to clear the screen after working with an encrypted file?
In Windows - closed the program and that's it. And in the Centos console, I did this:

 alias vimx='vim -u ~/.vimencrypt -x' 

And in the file .vimencrypt inserted:

 au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear au VimLeave * :!clear 

Accordingly, to work with an encrypted file, I run

 vimx password.txt 

You can sync the password.txt file using Dropbox, for example. And it becomes available on all your operating systems.
That's all, do not forget the encryption password!