Re: Emacs support for Trojan horses

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From: Stephen Gildea
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 21:05

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    There is a feature of GNU Emacs, enabled by default, which makes a
    very convenient vehicle for Trojan horses.  The facility is described
    in the 'file variables' section of the info tree, and lets you execute
    any Emacs Lisp code when a file is loaded into a buffer....
    
    Shouldn't this feature be protected in some way, e.g., by asking the
    user permission to execute such code (if it is more than just setting
    a major mode)?


Put this form in your .emacs file:

(setq inhibit-local-variables t)

This setting will have Emacs ask you before running the code.  In
Emacs 18.56 or later, it will even show you the code it is proposing
to run.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium

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