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mercurial: add editorconfig

Editorconfig (http://editorconfig.org/) is a file format helping define coding
styles like spaces, tabs etc. It supports a wide range of editors. Some well-
known projects like ruby and zsh are using it already.

This patch adds a simple .editorconfig, making it clear we use 8-char tabs in
C code, 4-char spaces in Python code, and we don't keep trailing spaces.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.