Add assembly code style to README & emacs dir-locals

.dir-locals.el

@@ -6,4 +6,20 @@
   (c-file-style . "bsd")
   (c-basic-offset . 4)
   )
+ (asm-mode
+  (indent-tabs-mode . nil)
+  ; this is basically a hack so asm-mode indents with spaces not tabs
+  ; taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2668563/emacs-indentation-in-asm-mode
+  ; (moving to gas-mode may be a better choice)
+  (tab-stop-list (quote (4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92 96 100 104 108 112 116 120)))
+  (asm-comment-char . "#")
+  )
  )
+
+; IMPORTANT: If you want to write assembly and have indenting to not be infuriating,
+; you probably also want this in your .emacs file:
+;
+; (add-hook 'asm-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq indent-line-function 'indent-relative)))
+;
+; This is not safe to set as a local variable.
+