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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:08:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tzq6n0ej.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85odgf6j0a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:18:29 +0200 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote: 

DK> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> I strongly disagree.  The file won't be there without the user having
>>> taken some action to put it there
>> 
>> s/the user/a user/
>> 
>> On multi-user systems this could be a security risk, so it should be
>> disabled by default.

DK> If we think it a security risk, we can ignore such files unless
DK> written by the current user.

That would make the feature much less useful.  Better to interpret the
file safely and notify the user both when it happens and after the fact
as I commented previously.  It would be extremely useful to have a
shared directory on a multi-user system with standardized code
indentation settings, for instance, through this mechanism.

Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-05 10:46 .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-05 14:27 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 14:29   ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 15:23     ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 15:36       ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 16:04         ` .emacs-settings.el Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-06 16:48           ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 19:34             ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-06 20:21               ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 21:07                 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07  2:11                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 23:55                 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07  2:18                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  2:54                 ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07  4:03                   ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 12:03                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  6:19                 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 11:56                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 15:49                   ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 20:39             ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 21:00               ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  6:31             ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 12:09               ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 20:22           ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 20:10         ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:51           ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 17:40           ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 17:47             ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 19:19               ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-08 22:17                 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 23:11                   ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-08 23:09                     ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-09  1:28                   ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-09  8:09                   ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-10 22:21                   ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-09 20:06               ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 14:08                 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-12  8:46                   ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 19:53           ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:08     ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:50       ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 17:43         ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 19:53         ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08 17:43           ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:58       ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  3:05         ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07  6:17         ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07  7:07           ` .emacs-settings.el Jason Rumney
2007-09-07  7:18             ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 12:08               ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2007-09-07 15:52             ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-08  7:00             ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:28     ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 20:50       ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 23:52         ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 23:41           ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-07  8:52             ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 12:14   ` .emacs-settings.el Johannes Weiner
2007-09-07 16:03     ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-07 16:35     ` .emacs-settings.el Drew Adams
2007-09-07 18:11       ` .emacs-settings.el joakim
2007-09-08  7:01       ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08  7:00     ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman

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