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Re: .emacs-settings.el


From: Davis Herring
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:23 -0700 (PDT)
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>> 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.

That's why the file only can contain variable settings, and why they are
run through the usual risky/unsafe variable check.  Which is good: telling
the user "here's a nice feature, but it's unsafe to use it" means that the
feature isn't so nice.

Davis

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