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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: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:32:18 +0200

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

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

I think having convenient C-c C-* commands in the NEWS file is more
important than having to adjust to using the outline-minor-mode
commands.  (And there will probably be more of them.)  Outline mode
takes 22 C-c keystrokes, which makes things really awkward.

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