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6 7 Right now the only option available is to prevent verbose messages from being displayed when moving
8 between directories. You can do this by setting `AUTOSWITCH_SILENT` to a non-empty value.
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11+Security Warnings
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14+zsh-autoswitch-virtualenv will warn you if you are not the owner of `.venv` file found in a directory
15+and refuse to activate that virtual envionrment. This is a security measure that prevents other
16+(potentially malicious) users from switching you to a virtual environment you did not want to switch to.