Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb (fwd)

[friedman () cli com (Noah Friedman)]

>  >     (setq inhibit-local-variables t)
>
> 1) Where is this documented?  I have found nothing in the emacs 18
> info files.

Its description may not have appeared in the last printed manual for emacs
18; I can't remember.  But it's in the index of the info file for 
emacs 18.59.

> 2) Where is it useful?

It's useful for setting editing attributes of buffers visiting files  such
as the major and minor modes, fill or goal columns, a compilation command
for the file, and so on.

I also use them for useful side effects, such as resetting my mail abbrev
tables when I make changes to my aliases file, automatically incrementing
serial numbers in DNS record files before saving, and so on.