diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index d0d2918cc..6dfa6de85 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ disable=no-self-use,
         bad-continuation,
         too-many-instance-attributes,
         unnecessary-lambda,
-        blacklisted-name
+        blacklisted-name,
+        too-many-lines
 
 [BASIC]
 module-rgx=(__)?[a-z][a-z0-9_]*(__)?$
diff --git a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
index a30027b62..f65e0a4e9 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-# pylint: disable=too-many-lines
 # vim: ft=python fileencoding=utf-8 sts=4 sw=4 et:
-# Note the "disable=too-many-lines" needs to be in the first line to work.
 
 # Copyright 2014 Florian Bruhin (The Compiler) <mail@qutebrowser.org>
 #