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28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, 54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54993: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:45:15 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Now the only issue that remains, AFAICT, is the different key bindings
> for outline-related commands in NEWES, caused by the fact that
> emacs-news-mode activates outline-minor-mode.  Could we perhaps solve
> this by having emacs-news-mode be derived from outline-mode, not from
> text-mode?  If not, why not?

I thought it would be more consistent to have both emacs-news-view-mode
and emacs-news-mode use outline-minor-mode, but I don't really have a
strong opinion here.  (We're moving all the "help"-ish buffers to use
outline-minor-mode, after all.)

But emacs-news-mode is for editing, so perhaps it makes sense to use
outline-mode here.  It does steal an awful lot of the `C-c C-*' keys,
though, so I'm not very enthusiastic about outline-mode in general and
think we should avoid it.

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