[cargoshipit]

Okay, so we need to make sure that anyone that could ever potentially edit this file has this exact same configuration setup and is using emacs?

That's dumb and flaky. You sound like one of those guys that spends thousands of hours customizing/tweaking things instead of just accomplishing tasks.

[S4M]

You could imagine that it's a rule in the company where GP works that programmers have to notify the boss when they change CreditChecking.java. GP's colleagues who are not using emacs would have to do it manually, while GP would do it automatically.