Re: Risky local variable mechanism

[Chong Yidong]

>> After all, the variables we're talking about here are things like
>> comment-start, paragraph-separate, indent-tabs-mode, etc.  Will Emacs
>> 23 (to be released in 3006 ;-) have something like this?
>
> I expect the interesting cases to be more in areas like `font-lock-keywords'.

In my proposal, font-lock-keywords is considered risky, so the user is
never asked whether or not to add it to the whitelist.