diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1d663f8..c10e993 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -157,3 +157,9 @@ not exhaustive, but it should provide enough to check for regressions.
 **     `make clean' removes stow (which is generated from stow.in).
 
 *   Initial public release (v1.0) of Stow.
+
+
+* emacs local variables
+  Local Variables:
+  mode: org
+  End:
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 6a39dba..132f689 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -44,3 +44,8 @@ Does Version 2 fix this? (Kal)
 I think that because it never needs to create /usr/local/info,
 it only needs to check the ownership of links that it _operates_ on,
 not on all the elements of the path.
+
+* emacs local variables
+  Local Variables:
+  mode: org
+  End: