GNU bug report logs - #50674
Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking

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Message #56 received at 50674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 50674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:24:21 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 01:58:58 -0700
> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, 50674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > You mean, binary distributions?  Do we care?  Do users of binary
> > distributions read the AUTHORS file?
> 
> It is reachable from the splash screen, so yes.

The splash screen button could load the file from any place we want,
so if that is the problem, I don't understand all the sub-thread about
where to put the file.  E.g., we could put it in etc/.

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