Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:42:39 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <20011002204238.B22031@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <dxitdxlx44.tdx@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:23:23AM -0700 References: <20010927141333.A44288@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <p05100334b7d8e6544d17@[194.78.144.27]> <20011002133112.B98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20011002135226.A33832@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <20011002142257.C98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <dxitdxlx44.tdx@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary W. Swearingen said on Oct 2, 2001 at 11:23:23: > I got to worrying about the amount of Emacs code there is and to suspect > that much of it changes often and is seen by only a few eyes and am > thinking it will be safer from a security standpoint to run vi. > > Is that overly paranoid? Do other people have this concern? It certainly never occurred to me to worry about the security of an editor. Now that you have mentioned it, I'm still not worrying. (I use vim, not emacs. <flamebait>I love vim and detest FreeBSD's default nvi, one of the few things I dislike in FreeBSD but it's easily fixed.</flamebait>) What sort of concerns do you have? Bugs? Trojans? Are you only worried about accidental data loss, or about someone else breaking into your system? If the latter, I don't see how. But then I know very little of emacs. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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