From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 24 Dropbox Edition Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:15:50 +0100 Message-ID: <86k4hbgig9.fsf_-_@googlemail.com> References: <86k4hb5mr3.fsf@googlemail.com> <49252.130.55.132.54.1297133166.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297145783 24976 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2011 06:16:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 06:16:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 08 07:16:19 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmgs6-00059l-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:16:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pmgs5-00024T-Kq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:16:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47030 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pmgrv-00024G-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmgru-0000V0-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmgru-0000Uo-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmgrs-00052d-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:16:04 +0100 Original-Received: from g231225184.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.225.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:16:04 +0100 Original-Received: from gruenderteam.berlin by g231225184.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:16:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231225184.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EhjJsWAd/uK05IZCL2nMdibcktU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:135722 Archived-At: "Davis Herring" 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