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From: Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: local variables and Gnus security
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:56:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903112156.QAA07255@sclp3.sclp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjpv6fj4zp.fsf@my.dina.kvl.dk> on 11 Mar 1999 18:44:26 +0100.

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>:
> > > what version emacs are you using?  in emacs 20.3 there's no
> > > `inhibit-local-variables'.  it's `enable-local-variables'
> > > (and there's also `enable-local-eval').

> It is not nice of Stallman to remove a security related option like
> that.

I seem to remember the change happened a long time ago...
grepping through the *NEWS files, it surfaced in emacs 19.1

> In any case, Gnus should bind `enable-local-eval' to nil before
> loading any files.

the default value of enable-local-eval will query the user,
which is mostly safe, just noisy and confusing and somewhat
prone to error, since it uses y-or-n-p which thinks that
space is yes.

I'm not sure gnus should be overriding user settings like
this, but I can't imagine a sane reason anyone would want to
enable-local-eval anyway.  so, yeah.
--


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-03-11 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-09  0:02 article won't display, errors says article buffer read-only Doug Bagley
1999-03-09 19:55 ` local variables and Gnus security Robert Epprecht
1999-03-10  9:47   ` Felix Lee
1999-03-10 12:12     ` Robert Epprecht
1999-03-11 17:44       ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-03-11 20:29         ` Karl Eichwalder
1999-03-11 21:56         ` Felix Lee [this message]
1999-03-12 11:35         ` Jan Vroonhof
1999-03-14 16:08         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-10 13:42   ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-03-10 18:52     ` François Pinard
1999-03-10 19:04       ` François Pinard
1999-03-11 15:37         ` empiric
1999-03-11 15:55           ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-11 18:01           ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-03-10 20:01       ` Alan Shutko
1999-03-10 21:55     ` Robert Epprecht
1999-03-14 16:04   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-12 15:34 ` article won't display, errors says article buffer read-only Doug Bagley
1999-03-14 16:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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