On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:51:23PM +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Many debian/changelog files have a fragment at the end looking like this: > > Local variables: > mode: debian-changelog > add-log-mailing-address: "SOME.EMAIL.ADDRESS" > End: > > This is wrong; the add-log-mail-address entry should be removed, as it > can cause changes made by Emacs users to have the wrong email address > associated with them. > > The proper place for Emacs to learn add-log-mailing-address from is > the user's ~/.emacs file. > > Perhaps a lintian check could be added for this (very common!) bug? In that case you should file a wishlist bug against lintian. In the meantime, I note that we appear to have canonicalized Emacs major mode specifications into the changelog format. What would be a syntactically acceptable way to add a vi(m) modeline? E.g.: vim:set ai et tw=78: This needs to be someplace where nothing else will try to parse it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser branden@debian.org | with remaining eye. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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