🚀 go-pugleaf

I wrote:

>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)?

It turns out there is a way to protect this feature: put this in .emacs:

	(setq inhibit-local-variables t)

Thanks to everybody who pointed this out (although I'm still puzzled
about the example showing why it's useful).  Now all I can complain
about is that this isn't default :-(

(Anecdote: when I wanted to post this follow-up, the eval stuff quited
in the original article started to edit my reply, deleting part of the
header before it ran into trouble...)

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
"Repo Man's got all night, *every* night"