One of the things I was really hoping for was creating a complete entry with arbitrary structured data and as few prompts as possible without having to run generate/edit or generate/insert and type out the full path to the secret or re-edit my command multiple times.

I was REALLY hoping to do something like this:

gopass generate work/cloud/signin.aws.amazon.com/myusername alias:myAccountID mysecretquestion funnyrobot=bender alongstring:"really\n is\n some\n long\n string" anothersecretquestion

Or update like this:

gopass insert work/cloud/signin.aws.amazon.com/myusername ssh_pub_key:"$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)" 

Where any key:value or key=value simply gets set as a YAML key: value, and the same for the multiline however YAML parses and saves that. The mysecretquestion and anothersecretquestion since they don't have values will trigger the "Please enter value for <keyname>:" dialog similar to how it currently does today, prompting once for each key and saving the key: value` into the entry along with the rest.

An aside

You might question the value of embedding ssh_pub_key in the data, but this lets me check in the comment field of the key which private key/system I initially setup my account with, then later when my separate work/cloud/myAccountID/myusername/id_rsa.pub entry doesn't match, I'll know I've switched machines or had to revoke a key. Otherwise this is pretty much irrelevant as I thought up the use case while making up the example. 😄