On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:59:02 -0500, Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:44:42 -0500, Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
> >> Can you try setting it via setq (i.e., globally) and see what happens?
> >>
> >> On 08/12/2010 07:53 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> Back from a short holiday and trying to catch up on work... and so I
> >>> may have missed something in the org mailing list (although I've
> >>> searched...).
> >>>
> >>> I have a large file which includes many babel code blocks (mostly
> >>> maxima) that I wish to have evaluated on export.  This works except
> >>> that I have to confirm each evaluation (which takes some time).  I
> >>> know that org-confirm-babel-evaluate exists so I have put the
> >>> following at the top of my org file:
> >>>
> >>> # -*- org-confirm-babel-evaluate: nil; -*-
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Erik,
> >
> > setting it globally (well, through customize as with setq didn't
> > actually change the global value) works just fine so there must be
> > some problem with the local value being ignored (I don't know enough
> > about emacs variables to understand the distinction, at the level of
> > lisp programming, between global and buffer local variables)?
> >
> > Of course, I'm not comfortable with the global setting for all the
> > reasons already discussed on this list!
> 
> If you look at the definition of org-confirm-babel-evaluate, you'll see:
> 
> ;; don't allow this variable to be changed through file settings
> (put 'org-confirm-babel-evaluate 'safe-local-variable (lambda (x) (eq x t)))
> 
> I'll guess as to why this is.  You might not want to have a malicious
> file essentially being able to override the very feature meant to
> protect the user. I could be off base with that.  I'm guessing there
> is a solution to your problem, I just don't know it.
> 

Ahhh...

I can see the reasoning behind this but I guess the question becomes
one of whether there is any way to turn this off for a file I am
working on without having to turn it off globally?  If not, I could
turn it off globally for a while... not a big deal, I guess.

Thanks!

eric