From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sean O'Rourke" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch: handle PS/PDF in Gnus Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:52:12 -0700 Message-ID: References: <86r6nl8s13.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <468EA9A8.7070204@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183870354 16531 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2007 04:52:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 04:52:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , Stefan Monnier , emacs- devel To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 08 06:52:32 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I7Ol2-0000Qx-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:52:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Ol1-0000Iy-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Okw-0000Il-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Okv-0000IB-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Okv-0000Hy-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound1.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.205]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7Oku-0004sH-7S; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.ucsd.edu (smtp.ucsd.edu [132.239.1.49]) by outbound1.ucsd.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l684qFnI010816 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:52:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=2007001; d=ucsd.edu; c=simple; q=dns; b=aanT7xSKnbIvwSd1RTjUj9GvFixBo51G0U5mNA0k9gXq5ehlWqPFjAsQogGlHgmPN 5vm7F6QDmQVAqBe3RsExQ== Original-Received: from mister-foo.local ([128.54.220.221]) by smtp.ucsd.edu (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l684qDCG070700; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:52:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <468EA9A8.7070204@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Fri\, 06 Jul 2007 21\:44\:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:74455 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > Opening unknown files from an untrusted source is not a good > default. Does the "open" method on a Mac make its own > decisions about what type of file it is being given based on > file content? AFAIK, it does the same thing as a double-click. Since we're talking about what Emacs does in response to an explicit user action here (e.g. pressing RET), I don't see this as a problem. I believe "opening untrusted files..." with the least-painful explicit confirmation is the best that can be done. /s