[424] in bugtraq
Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Howes)
Wed Dec 7 22:27:27 1994
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 18:02:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net>
To: rslau@usc.edu
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199412061744.JAA03697@tarazed.usc.edu>
On Tue, 6 Dec 1994, Robert Lau wrote:
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 03:50:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net>
>
> So there you are, reading along in some file that you found.
> Just browsing away, when what happens, but some magic bit of
> Local variables:
> find-file-hooks: ((lambda ()
> ...
>
> probably common knowledge but... it won't work if you have:
>
> (setq inhibit-local-variables t)
>
> in your .emacs.
Problem is, only people who have finally gotten into elisp will know this.
Only the beginners will be hurt.
--
Charles Howes -- chowes@helix.net
"Common sense is an oxymoron."
