Re: local variable for updating the time stamp on save

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

"Bruce Korb" <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:

  > On Jan 16, 2008 12:31 AM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
  > >     At the moment, no.  Thank you.  I just updated to GNU Emacs 22.1.1
  > >     and plodded my way through variable after variable triggering the
  > >     "we've never set this variable before.  Are sure you want to do
  > >     this?" over and over
  > >
  > > Can you find the list of the ones you accepted, and send it to us?
  > > Maybe we should mark some of them for acceptance by default.
  > 
  > Hi Richard,
  > 
  > I have a "safe-local-variables-values" both at home and at work.  For some
  > administrative reason, my work one got reset to empty and now only
  > contains:
  > 
  > '(safe-local-variable-values (quote ((sh-indentation . 2)
  > (sh-basic-offset . 4) (sh-basic-offset . 2))))

sh-indentation is already marked safe.
sh-basic-offset still needs to be marked as safe. I'll take care of it
soon.

  > But I'd simply say that anything containing "indent" or "offset" is
  > pretty likely
  > to be "pretty safe".  I still think it is better still to "allow" me to say that
  > this is a nifty feature that I don't like.  :)  I want to live
  > dangerously because

What we are trying to do is actually for users not have to care about
this, it should work without any action. For that we are trying to mark
as many variables safe as possible.

Maybe we can ask people on the emacs mailing lists to try to help with
this.  Find any variable not marked as safe that is used in any local
variable section in the code that they have access to.