Re: [PATCH] Make ispell localwords safe local variable

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>
> Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:56:45 -0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It sounds like no one sees a problem with this change, so I've now
> > installed it on the master branch.
> 
> Would you be willing to merge the same commit on the emacs-29 branch?

Sorry, no.  There were some questions about this being safe that I
think only time can answer in a satisfactory manner.  Leaving this on
master will give users enough time to try this and provide feedback in
case we overlooked something, before we release that code.

> If ispell-buffer-session-localwords is not safe, then package-vc-install
> fails to install packages which set it in a dir-locals.el.  This is
> currently the case with hyperdrive.el, whose manual recommends that
> users mark it as safe in their own configuration prior to installation.

Users who are hit by this problem can indeed add the necessary form in
their init files.  Or they can use the development version from the
master branch.  Or install the change locally and rebuild Emacs 29.
I'm sorry, but declaring a variable safe is a serious business in
Emacs, and we cannot do that in the middle of releasing a version of
Emacs which was used and tested without such a declaration.