Re: Policy for declaring safe local variable values

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Oct 08 2021, Titus von der Malsburg wrote:
>> Fun fact: answering your e-mail in Emacs I got the same question. :-)
>
> This is scary and perhaps even a bug? It seems wrong that text in e-mails 
> should
> be allowed to set local variables.

You might be right.

>> `defcustom` even has a keyword for it (`:safe`), so I don't think it violates
>> any conventions.
>>
>> TBH, I use this method in some of my packages and it never occurred to me it
>> might be against conventions...
>
> Thank you.  I wasn’t aware of the ‘:safe‘ keyword.

Note that the Elisp manual says that using `:safe` has a disadvantage and that
an autoload cookie may be a better solution (scroll down a little or search for
"autoload"):

(info "(elisp) File Local Variables")



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Joost Kremers
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