Re: Local variables insecurities - Re: One vs many directories

[Jean Louis]

* Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> [2020-11-25 16:58]:
> On Wednesday, 25 Nov 2020 at 16:13, Jean Louis wrote:
> > I use Mutt.
> > The message is opened in Emacs in mail-mode
> 
> Ah, so mutt saves content in a file which is then opened by
> Emacs.  Okay, that makes sense.  Gnus does things the other way around:
> opens the buffer (associated with a file in the draft directory),
> inserts the content, and then puts the user in control.  File local
> variables don't get a chance to be interpreted then.

That is specific to Gnus. Any file opened by Emacs any will still
invoke the dialogue for local variables.

> > Then I have been testing and even text files invoke local variables.
> 
> Yes, of course.  That's the whole point?

You know that point is bad design and assumption that every user is
programmer who knows what are local variables and what are definitions
of Emacs functions, it is incredible situation.