Re: Emacs local vars at the tail of every file

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
>> I don't know if this changes the calculus but apparently we've already decided
>> to go down the route of having Emacs local variables attached to every file in
>> the source directory. We have things like this there:
>> 
>> <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
>> Local variables:

> Only in the docs.

And indeed I'd argue for taking those *out* of the docs files, and
adding them to the suggested emacs config-file hacking.  A sufficient
reason why is that I doubt these settings are uniformly valid across
all emacs versions.  We already know that the C-code indentation
settings have changed, and this sgml configuration is far more detailed
than those.
        regards, tom lane