Re: HOW CAN I STOP THIS NOVICE MODE STUFF?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Bruce Korb <Bruce.Korb@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Please?  I hate it.  This one seems unstoppable and won't even
>>> let me paste it in.  Emacs really does not know better than me.
>>> I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS STUFF.
>> So you want to allow everyone to erase all your files?
> 
> Hi Andreas, Lennart,
> 
> "anyone", I would hope :).  Perhaps I was mistaken.  I thought
> these incantations were constrained to setting buffer local
> variable values.  If they can execute arbitrary emacs lisp code,
> then it sounds very Microsoft-like.  ``Let it be easy for
> content providers and painful to secure.''  If emacs has really
> become "that powerful" then there's nothing for it but to go
> back to old versions or back to vi.  I disliked vi in 1974,
> despite "ed" being the only competition.
> 
> C.F. ``See "(info ...)" and "Ch-v v enable-local-variables'', I
> am afraid that does not address this issue.  Extracted from .emacs:
> 
>   (setq enable-local-variables    't)
>   (setq enable-recursive-minibuffers 't)
>   (setq hack-local-variables      't)
> 
> Cheers - Bruce


Hi Bruce, can you please tell what you think is not explained? Did you 
read what the value t means for enable-local-variables?