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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 31231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#31231: Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:20:04 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>> 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.

Skimming this thread, it sounds like bcee160 fixed the reported bug?
And a mode for NEWS was deemed not worthwhile, so it seems like
everything was covered?  So I'm closing this bug report.  If this is
wrong, please reopen.

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