Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64
Wm Randolph Franklin (wrf@ecse.rpi.edu)
Sun, 11 Dec 1994 19:32:16 -0500
Concerning:
> From: Dave Goldberg <dsg@blackbird.mitre.org>
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 09:00:26 -0500
> Subject: Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb
>
> Yeah, I've always wondered why Stallman et al, when they wrote v19,
> left enable-local-variables to t when they should have followed what
> they did with enable-local-eval which is set to query the user. At
> least it can be turned off or set to query in site-start.el or
> default.el.
Stallman seems prone to that sort of error. One of his releases a
few years back had something like a 'chmod 777' buried deep in a
shell file. I can't remember the details, but do remember that
the person who reported to the net it was outraged. Seemed to
think that it was deliberate.
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