From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Bruce Korb <Bruce.Korb@gmail.com>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: HOW CAN I STOP THIS NOVICE MODE STUFF?
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:51:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801021951.m02Jpq43005487@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <477BE6DE.3030207@gmail.com> (Bruce Korb's message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:32:46 -0800")
Bruce Korb <Bruce.Korb@gmail.com> writes:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> > "anyone", I would hope :). Perhaps I was mistaken. I thought
> > these incantations were constrained to setting buffer local
> > variable values.
> >
> > Yes, but there are variables whose values can get evaluated by Emacs
> > commands. That's the motive for this feature: to make sure those
> > variables don't get set by some file to a malicious value.
>
> And the net result is a loss of usability because at least I do not
> appreciate being interrupted from my work to answer "are you sure"
> questions on files I open and close a fair amount. The "you've never
> set this kind of variable before, do you really want to do that?!?!?!"
> question is a nuisance because I don't really want to enumerate
> everything, but this one is a bigger hassle. Perhaps add something
> like:
>
> /*
> * Local Variables:
> * .....
> * user-approves-of-everything: bkorb
> * End:
> */
Can you please post the contents of the local variables section for the
file that causes this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-23 21:48 HOW CAN I STOP THIS NOVICE MODE STUFF? Bruce Korb
2007-12-24 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-24 13:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-25 17:45 ` Bruce Korb
2007-12-25 17:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-25 22:32 ` Michael Schierl
2007-12-26 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-02 19:32 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-02 19:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-01-02 21:45 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-02 21:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-03 0:12 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-03 0:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-03 6:55 ` local variable for updating the time stamp on save (was: Re: HOW CAN I STOP THIS NOVICE MODE STUFF?) Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-04 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-04 18:15 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-10 14:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-15 18:47 ` local variable for updating the time stamp on save Bruce Korb
2008-01-16 8:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-17 15:32 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-17 20:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-17 23:15 ` Reiner Steib
2008-01-18 18:21 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-19 17:35 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-19 18:32 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-20 21:35 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-21 7:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-21 14:15 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-21 20:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-21 20:54 ` Bruce Korb
2008-01-22 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-21 20:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-22 1:00 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-01-21 9:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-24 14:00 ` HOW CAN I STOP THIS NOVICE MODE STUFF? Bastien
2007-12-25 0:56 ` Michael Schierl
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