Subject: bug#31231: Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 05:35:19 +0300

> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:34:17 +1200
> From: Phil Sainty <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],
> 	bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=[email-masked]>
> 
> On 2018-04-22 08:21, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > This solution is not applicable to NEWS files where
> > text-mode syntax tables are inherited via outline-mode
> > whose syntax table can't be changed.
> 
> Of course a new derived major mode could be defined with such
> a syntax table.
> 
> The NEWS files set their mode with a local variable, so that
> could be trivially changed if need be.

Technically, the solution is simple.  The problem is elsewhere, IMO.