[422] in bugtraq
Re: letter bombs: enable-local-eval saves Emacs 19
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Bresnahan)
Wed Dec 7 20:32:35 1994
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 17:20 CST
From: gudu@winternet.com (Michael Bresnahan)
To: gildea@x.org
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
> So, to summarize, with the default settings Emacs 19 is NOT caught by
> this sample bomb.
What about emacs 18 though? I just tried out the script and it
worked. At least, I think it worked. It just deleted itself. No
text was inserted into the buffer nor was anything echoed. I don't
know enough (I know next to nothing) about elisp to understand what
the script is supposed to do (how does that go, Lost In a S(?) of
Paraentheses?). After I added "(setq inhibit-local-variables t)" to
my .emacs file I was prompted before the script executed.
This behavior was not common knowledge to me and I'm a little
disconcerted that it is not well documented (if it is at all).
MikeB
