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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?





  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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