On 2014-01-07, at 17:38, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:

> Do we need so much boilerplate in all our files? With this and
> vim-modeline, we now have editor boilerplate that takes as much space as
> the MPL boilerplate. Also, afaik, vim modelines are mostly useless, since
> vim doesn't use them by default anyways (at least, it doesn't on
> Debian). And emacs can take local variables in a .dir-locals.el file.
> Why not put one at the root directory in mozilla-central? (and others if
> necessary in subdirectories for overrides)

Yeah, I thought that was the whole point of having a .emacs file.  I’ve never 
found those mode line things to be properly useful short of the point that it 
includes the entire c-offsets-alist for the buffer.  I’d rather the mode line 
stuff be removed.
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