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From: Thorsten <gruenderteam.berlin@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 24 Dropbox Edition
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:15:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k4hbgig9.fsf_-_@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 49252.130.55.132.54.1297133166.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov

"Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:
 
> Having Dropbox able to invisibly and automatically run code on
> thousands (millions?) of users' machines doesn't seem like a good
> idea.  I think Richard in particular is opposed to the execution of
> code not under the user's control (for those security reasons but also
> for the freedom of editing).

It's a matter of trust, of course. It seems that in the Orgmode
community Dropbox is quite popular. Maybe the same idea could be
realized via GitHub, with the slight inconvience that Updates are not
automatic.

> (You probably mean Emacs 24, here and in the subject.)

yes, Emacs 24 ... sorry

Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-08  1:38 Emacs 2.4 Dropbox Edition Thorsten
2011-02-08  2:46 ` Davis Herring
2011-02-08  6:15   ` Thorsten [this message]
2011-02-08 14:24     ` Emacs 24 " Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-08 15:31       ` Leo
2011-02-08  4:07 ` Emacs 2.4 " Stefan Monnier
2011-02-08  6:54   ` Emacs 24 " Thorsten
2011-02-08  5:49 ` Emacs 2.4 " Jambunathan K
2011-02-09 12:33 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-02-13 22:19   ` Thorsten

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