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From: Michael Price <ectospheno@gmail.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Executing Emacs Lisp through AppleScript on Mac OS X?
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:54:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e84f9250601081254q1519b43enb978816aaa36fbe1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F2D88A-A20A-45ED-8193-1C97762076E1@gmail.com>

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On 1/8/06, David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2005, at 03:54, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:
>
> > (defun mac-ae-do-lisp (event)
> >   (interactive "e")
> >   (eval (car (read-from-string (mac-ae-text (mac-event-ae event))))))
>
> Something like that is definitely an interesting functionality, but I
> wouldn't want to see it outside of a local installation, i.e. in
> Emacs, simply for security reasons. With such an event, any
> application can practically attain all rights that the Emacs process
> has and execute pretty much anything.

Given that emacs isn't setuid anything, I'm having trouble imagining a
scenario on a Mac where your concern is actually a concern. Can you
provide an example?

Keep in mine you can also send apple events to the terminal :)

Michael

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-08 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-17 11:11 Executing Emacs Lisp through AppleScript on Mac OS X? Presto W
2005-12-17 13:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-17 13:41   ` Presto W
2005-12-18  3:54     ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-01-08 19:46       ` David Reitter
2006-01-08 20:24         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-08 21:14           ` David Reitter
2006-01-09  2:21             ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-01-08 20:54         ` Michael Price [this message]
2005-12-17 13:28 ` Andreas Schwab

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