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

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Message #44 received at 54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54993: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28
 signals an error
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 10:45:49 +0200

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Local variables:
> coding: utf-8
> eval: (or (fboundp 'emacs-news-mode) (defalias 'emacs-news-mode 'outline-mode))
> mode: emacs-news
> paragraph-separate: "[ 	]*$"
> end:
>
> It requires you to confirm the eval form, but this is the price when you
> edit etc/NEWS from master with an older Emacs version.

That would prompt you in Emacs 29 too, though?  I think?

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