Re: Evaluate local variables in buffer

[Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org>]

Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:
> Matt Simmons writes:
> > I wrote a perl script that turns rdist output into a format suitable
> > for emacs outline-mode.  However, to kick XEmacs into outline-mode, I
> > had to add Local Variables stuff to the end of the output.  Much to my 
> > surprise, Gnus didn't eval the local variables stuff by default, so I
> > set about making it do so.
> I really don't think that you want to have GNUS eval the local variables
> of your email.  That would basically put your emacs at the mercy of
> whomever sends you mail.  It would also generally be wrong.
> Kind of like the Word Macro "feature".
Actually, I really do.  However, unlike Word, I'd like it disabled by
default.  That way people who wanted to use it could set
enable-local-[variables|eval] to query, and users who didn't need it
and who didn't know about it wouldn't have to have anything to be
afraid of.

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