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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, 54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54993: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28
 signals an error
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:28:21 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com,  54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

Perhaps in general that is true, but I think in this case previous
behavior is an important aspect that we should try to preserve.

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