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Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode
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Alex Kost |
Subject: |
Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:06:33 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" (2015-09-28 23:05 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> More generally, I'm strongly against using "eval" in .dir-locals. IMO
>> this file should be used only to set local variables, and ideally it
>> shouldn't evaluate an arbitrary code.
>
> Just to clarify: I suppose you mean using eval for things other than
> which Emacs can automatically determine to be safe. E.g.
>
> (eval . (put 'foo 'scheme-indent-function <n>))
>
> for integer <n> is safe; Emacs will eval that silently if I'm not
> mistaken.
Actually I don't like .dir-locals.el in general. I consider it a
workaround for the case when there are no appropriate major/minor modes
for editing the project files.
> But for things where Emacs pesters the user because it finds it
> "unsafe," I find that very annoying.
Indeed; it may be even scaring for newbies. At least it was for me when
I first faced such "unsafe" warning, so I used (setq
enable-local-variables nil) for some time :-)
--
Alex
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- Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/10/08
- Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- [PATCH] emacs: devel: Add indentation rules., Alex Kost, 2015/10/15
- Re: [PATCH] emacs: devel: Add indentation rules., Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/13