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Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:54:21 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:45:45 +0100 Dimitri Fontaine <address@hidden> wrote:
DF> What's proposed in this thread is a way for el-get to bootstrap
DF> itself in a user's setup without having to edit the user's init
DF> file.
s/el-get/any Emacs Lisp code/
The only reason I can think why this would not be acceptable is
security. Otherwise this makes a lot of sense.
For security I would propose checksumming any code in the load-dir and
when new files are added or existing files are changed, query the user
and store a file checksum in an alist.
I'm willing to make this facility a package that users can install. But
I think it's better to put it in the Emacs core so it's available by
default and without special action from the user beyond enabling a
single variable. I feel strongly it would enhance Emacs to provide this.
Ted
- user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/01
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/03/03
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Julien Danjou, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Tom Tromey, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Tom Tromey, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chad Brown, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chad Brown, 2011/03/05
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chad Brown, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Tom Tromey, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Tom Tromey, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Tom Tromey, 2011/03/04