GNU bug report logs - #31231
Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 20:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 31231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 31231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz <at> gnu.org,
 juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#31231: Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 05:35:19 +0300

> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:34:17 +1200
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
> Cc: 31231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> 	bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 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.
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