From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Wording in safe local variables message Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:24:30 -0400 Message-ID: <87u099hyxa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144182368 26930 80.91.229.2 (4 Apr 2006 20:26:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 20:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 04 22:26:02 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 1FQs5u-000195-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:25:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQs5t-0007jQ-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:25:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQs4q-00078p-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQs4o-00077X-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQs4o-00077D-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.4] (helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FQs89-0006sQ-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.55.143.70]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060404202431.GWLV27612.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2370FD78D3; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:24:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Ralf Angeli In-Reply-To: (Ralf Angeli's message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:05:21 +0200") 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:52414 Archived-At: > It seems that many people are having a hard time understanding how to > mark file-local variables permanently as safe. Maybe improving the > respective instructions in the pop-up message could help. Currently > it says > ! -- to apply the local variables list, and mark these values (*) as > safe (in the future, they can be set automatically.) > How about the following? > ! -- to apply the local variables list, and permanently mark these > values (*) as safe (in the future, they will be set automatically.) That sounds indeed much better, Stefan