Subject: Re: bug#54993: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:37:36 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> What's your suggestion for how this should work, then?  etc/NEWS in
>> auto-mode-alist?
>
> Either that, or private customizations.

Sure, it might make sense for people that use Emacs 28 to edit NEWS in
Emacs 29 to use something like the following customisation:

(unless (fboundp 'emacs-news-mode)
  (defun emacs-news-mode ()
    (let ((inhibit-local-variables-regexps '(".*")))
      (outline-mode))))

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