From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38360.128.165.123.18.1189180343.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> <85y7fj80er.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <46E0F8B3.9020702@gnu.org> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189180368 23472 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 15:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jason Rumney" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 17:52:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITg8S-0005TZ-Iy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:52:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITg8Q-0005ZL-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITg8N-0005ZE-02 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITg8K-0005Yi-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITg8K-0005YZ-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54] helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITg8D-0005oJ-CJ; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (mailrelay3.lanl.gov [128.165.4.104]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l87FqRn9009691; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:52:27 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l87FqOUe003594; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:52:24 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l87FqNRU020051; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:52:23 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l87FqNMf020048; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:23 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46E0F8B3.9020702@gnu.org> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-6.el3.2lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: herring@lanl.gov X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78164 Archived-At: >> I strongly disagree. The file won't be there without the user having >> taken some action to put it there > > s/the user/a user/ > > On multi-user systems this could be a security risk, so it should be > disabled by default. That's why the file only can contain variable settings, and why they are run through the usual risky/unsafe variable check. Which is good: telling the user "here's a nice feature, but it's unsafe to use it" means that the feature isn't so nice. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.