GNU bug report logs - #74879
30.0.92; trusted-content-p and trusted-files cannot be used for non-file buffers

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, 74879 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#74879: 30.0.92; trusted-content-p and trusted-files cannot be used for non-file buffers
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:32:31 +0200

On 15/12/2024 12:16, Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> For example in my GNU ELPA Corfu package the plan was to check
> `(trusted-content-p)' when starting auto completion.

Shouldn't that be done in the c-a-p-f function?

>To be clear - Corfu
> is safe by default, since auto completion is disabled by default.
> However many people enable auto completion unconditionally in all
> buffers.

Having completion invoked manually doesn't really ensure that the user 
knows about the odds of it running code from the current file. Some 
languages do that, some don't, and the newbie Lisp users have little 
idea of what macro expansion in completion entails.

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