From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: HOW CAN I STOP THIS NOVICE MODE STUFF? Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:58:16 +0100 Message-ID: <477144B8.5060607@gmail.com> References: <476ED79F.1000306@gmail.com> <477141A3.7030808@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198605527 20893 80.91.229.12 (25 Dec 2007 17:58:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:58:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Bruce Korb Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 25 18:58:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J7E3N-0003XG-RR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:58:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7E33-00062H-EG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7E2y-000624-F7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7E2w-00061o-SJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7E2w-00061l-Oo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:58:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J7E2w-0004Z7-9x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:58:30 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:65283 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J7E2t-0003UY-6A; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:58:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <477141A3.7030808@gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071224-0, 2007-12-24), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1J7E2t-0003UY-6A. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1J7E2t-0003UY-6A 5eb8914a8ab961bcedde000e6707c7b2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17237 Archived-At: Bruce Korb wrote: > Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Bruce Korb 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?