Re: Risky local variable mechanism

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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?
>> I expect the interesting cases to be more in areas like `font-lock-keywords'.
> In my proposal, font-lock-keywords is considered risky, so the user is
> never asked whether or not to add it to the whitelist.

Sure it safe, but it's overly restrictive: it's useful for people to add
their own keywords (e,g, to recognize and highlight things like DEFUN macros
in C).


        Stefan