Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" (2015-09-28 23:05 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> 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
