Re: Unsafe variable in a saved *compilation* buffer

[David Hansen]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:35:48 +0100 Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Hello!
>
> When I try to open a previously saved *compilation* buffer, GNU
> Emacs complains about an unsafe variable, default-directory. Is this
> needed?
>
>
>       The local variables list in Kompilation-doc
>       contains values that may not be safe (*).
>       
>       Do you want to apply it?  You can type
>       y  -- to apply the local variables list.
>       n  -- to ignore the local variables list.
>       !  -- to apply the local variables list, and permanently mark these
>             values (*) as safe (in the future, they will be set
> automatically.)
>       
>         * default-directory : "~/Quellen/X11R7.1/"

Just curious, could one exploit this + tramp to find out if someone
has opened a file with Emacs?

David