TongKe Xue | 1 Mar 2005 21:38
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Re: rvim "paranoid" mode? New feature

Does it / should it also prevent stuff like

:! mv ~/some_file /etc/somewhere_else

?

Collins, Kevin (MindWorks) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	a couple of years ago, I hacked the vim 6.1 source code to
> "enhance" rvim to have what I call "paranoid" mode. This mode prevents a
> user from operating on any file than the one(s) on the command line. It
> disallows the :e otherfile and :w otherfile and :redir commands.
> 
> While I realize this may not be useful for a lot of people, it is very
> nice when granting permissions to a command from a privilege manager
> such as sudo. If there is any interest in adding this enhancement, I can
> provide my changes to a real programmer so they can be integrated... I'd
> love to not have to worry about getting too far out of date with my
> custom code, too!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 


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