Re: Executing Emacs Lisp through AppleScript on Mac OS X?

[Michael Price]

On 1/8/06, David Reitter <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2005, at 03:54, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:
>
> > (defun mac-ae-do-lisp (event)
> >   (interactive "e")
> >   (eval (car (read-from-string (mac-ae-text (mac-event-ae event))))))
>
> Something like that is definitely an interesting functionality, but I
> wouldn't want to see it outside of a local installation, i.e. in
> Emacs, simply for security reasons. With such an event, any
> application can practically attain all rights that the Emacs process
> has and execute pretty much anything.

Given that emacs isn't setuid anything, I'm having trouble imagining a
scenario on a Mac where your concern is actually a concern. Can you
provide an example?

Keep in mine you can also send apple events to the terminal :)

Michael