From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to reject visiting a file Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:31:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oar9abdc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83k31xs3dg.fsf@gnu.org> <87k31waoah.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418398341 13858 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 15:32:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:32:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 16:32:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSCT-00089f-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:32:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSCT-0003FC-Df for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSBw-0002ul-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:31:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSBp-0003Cp-Ho for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:31:40 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSBp-0003Ci-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:31:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzSBm-00072F-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:31:30 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-130-192.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.130.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:31:30 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-130-192.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:31:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-130-192.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MVyd8sYS2t0WDnHT3TjtCxrMAjc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101545 Archived-At: >>> Is there a way to error-out when Emacs tries to visit certain file >>> before the file is loaded? I'll like to use a hook that receives the >>> file name and be able to throw an error from there that aborts the >>> operation. >> You could define a file-handler for these files. > Yes, that looks like a solution. > For the record, the relevant info is in the Elisp manual: > Making Certain File Names “Magic” I think that's going to be pretty heavyweight. A simpler approach is something like (defun sm-prevent-visiting-files (filename &rest _) (if (string-match "nasty-file-name" filename) (error "Bad! Bad file name! Bad!"))) (advice-add 'find-file-noselect :before #'sm-prevent-visiting-files) -- Stefan