It was missing a set of parentheses and a dot before
`indent-tabs-mode'.
More information here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Directory-Variables.html#Directory-Variables
Signed-off-by: Rafael Zalamena <rzalamena@opensourcerouting.org>
;;; For more information see (info "(emacs) Directory Variables")
;;; Match project coding conventions
-((c-mode
- (indent-tabs-mode . t)
- (show-trailing-whitespace . t)
- (c-basic-offset . 8)))
+((c-mode . ((indent-tabs-mode . t)
+ (show-trailing-whitespace . t)
+ (c-basic-offset . 8)
+ )))