"Jan D." wrote:

AFAICS, it Just Works by default?

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Is this a local addition you have?  There is no such thing in my unmodified .dir-locals.el:

(log-edit-mode . ((log-edit-font-lock-gnu-style . t)

                  (log-edit-setup-add-author . t)))

Hmph, the bzr and git versions differ!?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/.dir-locals.el
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/annotate/head:/.dir-locals.el

Someone can now have fun figuring out what Hideous Problem this signifies..,