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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276564 Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 08 2021, Titus von der Malsburg wrote: >> Fun fact: answering your e-mail in Emacs I got the same question. :-) > > This is scary and perhaps even a bug? It seems wrong that text in e-mails= should > be allowed to set local variables. You might be right. >> `defcustom` even has a keyword for it (`:safe`), so I don't think it vio= lates >> any conventions. >> >> TBH, I use this method in some of my packages and it never occurred to m= e it >> might be against conventions... > > Thank you. I wasn=E2=80=99t aware of the =E2=80=98:safe=E2=80=98 keyword. Note that the Elisp manual says that using `:safe` has a disadvantage and t= hat an autoload cookie may be a better solution (scroll down a little or search= for "autoload"): (info "(elisp) File Local Variables") --=20 Joost Kremers Life has its moments