From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11941 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Simmons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Evaluate local variables in buffer Date: 19 Aug 1997 23:25:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: simmonmt@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151568 1013 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:06:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: (ding) GNUS Mailing List Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA06630 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:13:21 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA21816 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:08:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from aurora.matt.cs.purdue.edu (root@phx-az7-03.ix.netcom.com [205.186.66.35]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 22:11:59 +0200 Original-Received: (from simmonmt@localhost) by aurora.matt.cs.purdue.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) id BAA01660; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 01:25:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Colin Rafferty In-Reply-To: Colin Rafferty's message of "18 Aug 1997 17:43:21 -0400" Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.65/XEmacs 20.2 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11941 Colin Rafferty 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. -- The difference between a bug and | a feature is documentation. | Matt Simmons -- Ben Duncan | simmonmt@acm.org bend@ali.intop.net |