I've just been puzzling out a bug in Emacs which stops me correcting my setting of indent-tabs-mode to t for GNU files (I have it customized to nil).
Basically, the bug (at least in 23.3) is that when a file's mode is set by its local variables, as in the case for example of announce-gen, then any directory-local variables are ignored. To work around this, would it be alright to add a setting for indent-tabs-mode to such files? I was going to suggest that it would also help to have .dir-locals.el files instead of repeating the same settings in each file, but the bug to which I've just referred militates against that. However, since my .dir-locals.el file is still useful in many cases (for files with explicit suffixes, where the bug does not show up), it would seem reasonable to add .dir-locals.el to the top-level .gitignore. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
