Found new way to fix emacs issue.. There are directory level preferences.

Remove file-level emacs comment and replace with directory level overrides.

diff --git a/.dir-locals.el b/.dir-locals.el
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ce85e5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dir-locals.el
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t))))
\ No newline at end of file