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

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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>

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31231: Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 23:39:25 +0300

> Modifying the syntax of ‘'’ to ‘expression quote’ looks good since it
> will correctly handle spell-checking words with an apostrophe with
> this patch that solves the problem for ChangeLogs:

Pushed to master as bcee160.

> Maybe creating a new minor mode for NEWS files that in addition
> to modifying the syntax of quotes will also highlight quoted symbols
> with a special face like is used currently in Info.

I'm not sure if implementing such mode just for NEWS is worthwhile enough.
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