Subject: Re: bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:33:22 -0700

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> I thought of another one -- NEWS should really have its own major mode
> to make it easier to edit.

Indeed.  In comparison to the others, such a mode wouldn't (or
shouldn't) be purely cosmetic.