Re: The `risky-local-variable' blacklist

[Stefan Monnier]

> Quoting from NEWS, we already added the foundation for this:

> ** The variable `safe-local-eval-forms' specifies a list of forms that
> are ok to evaluate when they appear in an `eval' local variables
> specification.  Normally Emacs asks for confirmation before evaluating
> such a form, but if the form appears in this list, no confirmation is
> needed.

Indeed, when assessing whether assining foo to bar is safe, we could just
look up safe-local-eval-forms and see if (setq bar foo) is there.


        Stefan