Re: [RFC] MIME attachments for comint

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Sat,  2 Oct 2021 at 19:17, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > This option is off by default, or at least should be in a sane OS --
>   > that's why I said “could in principle”.
>
> I don't think we need to worry, in Emacs, that some system might have
> enabled a big security hole.
>
> What does Lua have to do with TeX?

This is one of the big (not so) recent developments in TeX: there is now
a version of it with an embedded Lua interpreter [1].  As you know,
programming in TeX itself can be quite cumbersome, so this helps a lot
to extend TeX in new directions.

[1]: http://www.luatex.org/