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* My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again
@ 2007-09-20 18:22 Bruce Korb
  2007-09-20 23:40 ` David Hansen
  2007-09-21  9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 69+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Korb @ 2007-09-20 18:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

The main novice problem is that I cannot get out of novice mode.
It does not seem to matter that I've been using emacs for 20 years.
``appropos novice'' yields nothing.  I suppose I could go hunting
around the file system to find where "novice.el" is hidden, but
I really don't want to do that.  I just want all these nonsense
"novice" confirmation junk turned off and I want it easy to find.
Why is that too much to ask?  :(

OK.  I've vented now.  Would someone please be kind enough to
tell me how to shut down the novice stuff completely?  Thank you.

P.S. This appears to not be everything anymore:


(put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil)
(put 'upcase-region 'disabled nil)
(put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)
(put 'set-goal-column 'disabled nil)
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq next-line-add-newlines nil)
(setq default-major-mode 'indented-text-mode)
(setq split-window-keep-point nil)
(setq minibuffer-max-depth nil)
(setq vc-mistrust-permissions nil)
(setq line-number-mode 't)
(setq backup-by-copying-when-linked 't)
(setq default-tab-width 8)
(setq hack-local-variables 't)
(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(setq line-number-mode 't)
(setq column-number-mode 't)
(setq c-recognize-knr-p nil)
(setq enable-local-variables 't)
(setq vc-cvs-stay-local nil)

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* Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again
@ 2007-10-06 18:44 Bruce Korb
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 69+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Korb @ 2007-10-06 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

This addition:  (setq disabled-command-function nil)
seemed reasonable.  It isn't quite a complete cover tho:

> The local variables list in configure.in
> contains values that may not be safe (*).
> 
> Do you want to apply it?  You can type
> y  -- to apply the local variables list.
> n  -- to ignore the local variables list.
> !  -- to apply the local variables list, and permanently mark these
>       values (*) as safe (in the future, they will be set automatically.)
>
>     mode : autoconf-mode
>     indent-tabs-mode : nil
>     sh-indentation : 2

OK, so I've made it permanent so ``sh-indentation 2''
will no longer be treated with suspicion.  The *NEXT*
suspicious thing will interrupt me again, however.
I think that this:

 '(safe-local-variable-values (quote ((sh-indentation . 2))))

should be *ENTIRELY* disabled, not just the one "sh-indentation"
entry.  I don't exactly know who thinks I need protection from
nefarious things like two-space indentation, but the reason I
had that assignment is because I wanted that assignment in there.

> There was never such a user setting in Emacs.  You always had to  
> enable each command individually (unless you are an advanced user and  
> know how to set a function to nil without causing damage). 

The problem, of course, are the newly added protections with
less-than-obvious ways of telling emacs, "Please stop protecting
me."  In the case above, it is not a disabled command issue.
It is some collection of variable values that someone thought
would be "dangerous".  So, I guess, in the end, I'm asking for
an enhancement:

 (custom-set-variables
    '(protective-mode nil))

and from that day forth, never worry about emacs protecting me
from myself ever again.  :-}  Thank you!  Cheers - Bruce

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2007-09-24 21:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-24 22:41             ` Emre Sahin
2007-09-24 23:10               ` Bastien
2007-09-25 15:47                 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 21:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 21:46                     ` Drew Adams
2007-09-26  9:02                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 14:47                         ` Drew Adams
2007-09-26 15:05                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 16:10                             ` Drew Adams
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2007-09-24 10:51     ` Tom Horsley
2007-09-24 21:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25  8:57   ` Tim X
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