Re: debian/changelog and add-log-mailing-address

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:59:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.

Either before or after the emacs stuff is fine.  The changelog parser
stops after the first '-- maint ...' line (unless -V is used).

   Julian

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