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Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:02:28 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> And in the case of variables, the trailing "You can _customize_ this
>> variable" which indicates a user option.
>
> Oh yeah, let's bikeshed the variable help buffers, too.  Here's a random
> example:
>
> ---
> gnus-summary-article-delete-hook is a variable defined in ‘gnus-sum.el’.
> Its value is nil
> Local in buffer *Summary nnimap+quimby.gnus.org:emacs-devel*; global value is 
> the same.
>
>   This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.

I'll lean out of my passing car and shoot a paintball at the shed:

I've never understood what "risky" meant. Why would I make it file-local
to begin with? What would happen if I did? Who would be at risk?

If any of this information belongs "below the fold", I'm voting for this
bit.



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