Re: enable-local-eval in Windows

Jeff> Changing the default value of nt-fake-unix-uid sounds Jeff> reasonable to me... Windows 95/98/ME doesn't have much of a Jeff> concept of user or root, so uid/user doesn't mean anything, Jeff> right? Which means they're effectively root. I think we should wear white hats, here. Document it, make it a defcustom, give it a top level menu item. But make people think about it for five seconds. Jeff> But in order to get the local-eval to stop asking or to Jeff> happen at all on windows, I had to advise Jeff> hack-one-local-variable: What do you mean by "stop asking"? Jeff> Maybe we could have a local-eval-expressions customization Jeff> (say an alist of expressions with nil/:ask/t values) that Jeff> allows the user to explicitly say that certain eval Jeff> expressions that are ok. This check could be done before Jeff> checking for (zerop (user-uid)). Basically, any minor-mode Jeff> function is, or should be, ok in a :eval. I can see this might be useful. How close does the match have to be? #'equal? (Of course, enabling minor modes is in general deprecated in local variables sections. You're supposed to do that in mode hooks.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.