Had a little adventure this morning with GnuPG 2.x on Windows 7 and decided
to revert to 1.4.
During command line decryption, pinentry opens a popup window for the
passphrase. In the pinentry window, paste (Ctl+V) is not supported. Deal
breaker. I read through the forums and could not find a way
Storing your passphrase in the clipboard is generally considered unwise
and harmful. Your passphrase is a high-value secret: putting it on the
clipboard makes it visible to every other process on your system
(including malware!).
I understand the risk, and your point is valid. However, if
