Add vim/emacs modeline support (#44210)

Many editors such as vim and emacs support "modelines", a comment at the
beginning of the file that allows the file type to be explicitly
specified along with per-file specific settings

- The amount of configurations, style and settings mapping cannot be
handled in one go, so this opens up a lot of potential improvements.
- I left out the possiblity to have "zed" specific modelines for now,
but this could be potentially interesting.
- Mapping the mode or filetype to zed language names isn't obvious
either. We may want to make it configurable.

This is my first contribution to zed, be kind. I struggled a bit to find
the right place to add those settings. I use a similar approach as done
with editorconfig (merge_with_editorconfig). There might be better ways.

Closes #4762

Release Notes:

- Add basic emacs/vim modeline support.

Supersedes #41899, changes:
- limit reading to the first and last 1kb
- add documentation
- more variables handled
- add Arc around ModelineSettings to avoid extra cloning
- changed the way mode -> language mapping is done, thanks to
`modeline_aliases` language config
- drop vim ex: support
- made "Local Variables:" handling a separate commit, so we can drop it
easily
- various code style improvements

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Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ name = "Python"
grammar = "python"
path_suffixes = ["py", "pyi", "mpy"]
first_line_pattern = '^#!.*((\bpython[0-9.]*\b)|(\buv run\b))'
modeline_aliases = ["py"]
line_comments = ["# "]
autoclose_before = ";:.,=}])>"
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