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"Loading a theme can run Lisp code" - wtf (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by ghiste@alien.top to c/emacs@communick.news
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Hi,

every time I try to get into orgmode (which is great) I have to deal with emacs (I ususally use nvim) and I feel that regardless of any productivity boost orgmode may give me, I will never recover the time I have wasted with emacs configuration issues - it seems to be just a very, very fragile ecosystem...

Here is the latest problem:

I want to use the modus-operandi theme and have added a use-package clause copied from the documentation.

But now when I open emacs I get a prompt, informing me that loading a theme can run lisp code and if I wanted to proceed, I say yes, I am asked if this theme should be deemed safe for future sessions, I say yes and then the theme loads fine - but only for this sesssion.

When I close emacs the whole thing starts again, so my question is: How can I get rid of this annoying prompt?

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[–] noooit@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a weird default. The file is literally a elisp code with .el like almost everything else.

[–] scribe36@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

No—it’s not. These days we think we need code for everything. Emacs is from times when people didn’t default to that assumption. Someone may have loaded a theme thinking it will just load some style sheet and not run code. Then—be surprised that loading a “theme” meant running code.