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From: | Gustavo Barros |
Subject: | bug#57856: 28.2; bookmark context strings in encrypted files |
Date: | Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:30:19 -0300 |
User-agent: | mu4e 1.8.10; emacs 28.2 |
Hi Lars, Thanks again for the very prompt response. On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 at 14:07, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com> writes:It could be argued that it is unwise to set a bookmark in this context. But, well, users do all kind of stuff. Besides, Emacsprovides no hint that this may be risky (as far as I can tell). So itwould be nice if Emacs would be a little more conservative here, and locally set `bookmark-search-size' to 0 in buffers visiting encrypted files.I think that makes sense. Alternatively, we could prompt the user for what to do in these files? Anybody have any opinions?
If this were to be left to user discretion, I'd suggest a variable rather than a prompt. What would we ask? "This file is encrypted. Set bookmark, yes or no?" "Why wouldn't I? Yes." For the value of `bookmark-search-size'? "What's that? Default. RET" The general point is, how many users should we expect to know "at prompt time" that `bookmark.el' stores part of the buffer in the bookmark file and what it represents for an encrypted file?
But, to be honest, I'm not even sure if this being optional is particularly meaningful. Do you see any use case where one would actually want to store unencrypted context of an encrypted file?
Best regards, Gustavo.
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