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Re: .emacs-settings.el


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:08:20 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin)

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:18:29 +0200 David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote: 

DK> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> I strongly disagree.  The file won't be there without the user having
>>> taken some action to put it there
>> 
>> s/the user/a user/
>> 
>> On multi-user systems this could be a security risk, so it should be
>> disabled by default.

DK> If we think it a security risk, we can ignore such files unless
DK> written by the current user.

That would make the feature much less useful.  Better to interpret the
file safely and notify the user both when it happens and after the fact
as I commented previously.  It would be extremely useful to have a
shared directory on a multi-user system with standardized code
indentation settings, for instance, through this mechanism.

Ted





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