Instead of pushing settings just for Emacs, why don't you use something
that all editors can use?

For example https://editorconfig.org/

There are plugins for this for pretty much every editor out there.  That
would be much more useful than a ".dir-locals.el".      

- Florian

On 4/18/19 2:44 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 18.04.19 um 14:31 schrieb Florian Dold:
>> I am curious why this file had to be committed *individually* to every
>> repository, including the wallet and python repositories?   It's
>> completely useless for these projects
> 
> As you might have noticed, this also sets configuration relevant (and
> useful) for other languages than C, and even for www.git:
> 
>      (indent-tabs-mode . nil)
>      (show-trailing-whitespace . t)
>      (ispell-check-comments . exclusive)
>      (ispell-local-dictionary . "american")
>         (eval add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'flyspell-prog-mode)
>         (sentence-end-double-space . f)
> 
>>  and just extra noise for just one
>> specific editor that only some people are using.
> 
> I agree on this file being useful only for those using emacs, though I
> would not call it "noice" since it is a hidden file. But one could
> argument the same for all editor-related config-files.
> 

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