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Re: [feature request] A lock function.


From: anhnmncb
Subject: Re: [feature request] A lock function.
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:30:45 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (windows-nt)

"Davis Herring" <address@hidden> writes:

>>> That might give you a false sense of security. If you are to leave your
>>> user account non-locked, making your emacs session "locked" might not
>>> keep your data safe from someone who can access your session.
>> I just want that someone not to touch my emacs, yes, it's not
>> about security...
>
> If you really don't care about making it secure in any real sense, you can
> use something entirely trivial like
>
> (defun lock-emacs ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((inhibit-quit t))
>     (while (not (equal (read-passwd "Unlock: ") "potrzebie"))
>       (setq quit-flag nil)))) ; prevent C-g from looping
>
> Davis
That's great, now I can set it to run after a particular idle time!

Thank you :)





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