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Re: Risky local variable mechanism
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: Risky local variable mechanism |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:25:53 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> The probability of a safe value becoming dangerous is much lower. Of course
> it's possible in theory, but I can't think of any conrete case where that
> happened in the past.
I understand what you mean. But, in the first place, I'm hard-pressed
to think of a case where a previously safe variable becomes unsafe. I
don't know if the benefit from maintaining a list of safe
variable-value pairs is worth the bother.
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?
indent-tabs-mode is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Documentation:
*Indentation can insert tabs if this is non-nil.
If it is an integer, delete the contents of your home directory.
>>> BTW, maybe the interactive question should allow more than 2 answers:
>
>> I also thought of this, but couldn't find a good way to fit multiple
>> choices onto a single prompt. Is there an example of this kind of
>> prompt elsewhere in Emacs?
>
> How 'bout the query/replace prompt?
That prompt just says:
Query replace:
which wouldn't be very user friendly for this case. I was thinking
something like
Allow this setting? (y or n, ? for help)
where ? would bring up a window with extra choices (always allow,
always deny, etc.) Is there an existing convention in Emacs for
prompts of this sort?
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, (continued)
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Chong Yidong, 2006/02/07
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/02/07
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Chong Yidong, 2006/02/07
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Chong Yidong, 2006/02/07
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Chong Yidong, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Stefan Monnier, 2006/02/07
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Chong Yidong, 2006/02/07
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Stefan Monnier, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Stefan Monnier, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Chong Yidong, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Stefan Monnier, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Stefan Monnier, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Stefan Monnier, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Stefan Monnier, 2006/02/08
- Re: Risky local variable mechanism, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/09