From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Risky local variable mechanism Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:56:11 -0500 Message-ID: <87mzh2ih3o.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87mzhbly89.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87r76fkth6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200602080149.k181nhQ21836@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <873biufvou.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200602080218.k182IBO22570@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87y80miia6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139374596 19383 80.91.229.2 (8 Feb 2006 04:56:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 08 05:56:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6hNU-0004ts-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:56:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6hNT-0004qx-Ai for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F6hNI-0004qF-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F6hNG-0004oS-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6hNG-0004oE-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:56:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.95.6.197] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F6hQS-00051g-Ak; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:59:32 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A1C1D1E42C1; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 23:56:11 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <87y80miia6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:30:41 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50186 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Luc Teirlinck writes: > >> Chong Yidong wrote: >> >> Sorry, you're just being a drama queen here. The variable in question >> is a whitelist of safe variables. >> >> Really? You apparently do not know what your own patch does. It >> makes a defcustom out of `ignored-local-variables'. This is _not_ a >> whitelist of safe variables, quite to the contrary. > > Er, it is always safe to *add* to a list of local variables to ignore. BTW, I was originally referring to the new `safe-local-variables' defcustom in the patch. (The patch doesn't do anything with ignored-local-variables apart from making it a defcustom [currently, it is just a variable that is nil]).