Package: emacs;
Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 17:45:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Found in version 28.1
Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:44:44 +0300
emacs -Q C-x C-f etc/NEWS RET Observe an error message: File local-variables error: (void-function emacs-news-mode) and NEWS is visited in Fundamental mode, which makes it annoyingly inconvenient to edit the news entries. I think a new mode that is only available in the development version should not be forced on all the developers, because not all of them use the latest-and-the-greatest code all the time while working on Emacs. Please make it possible to edit NEWS conveniently with older versions of Emacs. In GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 2, i686-pc-mingw32) of 2022-04-03 built on HOME-C4E4A596F7 Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 System Description: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v5.1.0.2600) Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/d/usr --with-wide-int --with-native-compilation 'CFLAGS=-O2 -gdwarf-4 -g3'' Configured features: ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS XPM ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1255 Major mode: Mail Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t flyspell-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t save-place-mode: t display-battery-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t temp-buffer-resize-mode: t line-number-mode: t auto-fill-function: mail-mode-auto-fill indent-tabs-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: d:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/soap-client hides d:/usr/share/emacs/28.1/lisp/net/soap-client Features: (shadow emacsbug quail lao-util enriched smerge-mode diff calc-ext calc calc-loaddefs rect calc-macs arc-mode archive-mode thai-util thai-word pcase descr-text rng-xsd xsd-regexp rng-cmpct rng-nxml rng-valid rng-loc rng-uri rng-parse nxml-parse rng-match rng-dt rng-util rng-pttrn nxml-ns nxml-mode nxml-outln nxml-rap sgml-mode nxml-util nxml-enc xmltok ede/speedbar ede/files ede ede/detect ede/base ede/auto ede/source eieio-base eieio-speedbar eieio-custom cedet edebug backtrace gud completion find-cmd grep find-dired skeleton tabify autoconf autoconf-mode ffap ebuff-menu compile pulse etags fileloop generator vc-mtn vc-hg vc-src vc-sccs vc-svn cl-print thingatpt eieio-opt speedbar ezimage dframe find-func shortdoc help-fns radix-tree sh-script smie executable texinfo texinfo-loaddefs novice misearch multi-isearch dabbrev shr-color color rmailout shell pcomplete comint ansi-color rfc2104 gnutls network-stream nsm mail-extr smtpmail mailalias sendmail cc-awk jka-compr bat-mode dired-aux vc-bzr generic noutline outline make-mode vc-cvs vc-rcs conf-mode vc bug-reference add-log mule-util info vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode vc-dispatcher flyspell rmailsum shr kinsoku svg dom browse-url url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util url-parse url-vars mailcap qp rmailmm message rmc puny rfc822 mml mml-sec epa epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 rmail rmail-loaddefs auth-source eieio eieio-core eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils desktop frameset server find-lisp dired dired-loaddefs filecache mairix cus-edit pp cus-load wid-edit saveplace midnight facemenu ispell derived generic-x cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs xref project ring format-spec battery dbus xml time comp comp-cstr warnings subr-x rx cl-seq cl-macs cl-extra help-mode seq byte-opt gv cl-loaddefs cl-lib bytecomp byte-compile cconv iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 3198865 323401) (symbols 48 43159 3) (strings 16 264038 30739) (string-bytes 1 8154768) (vectors 16 98734) (vector-slots 8 2868549 238198) (floats 8 365 538) (intervals 40 589593 24500) (buffers 888 317))
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