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28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error
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> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 10:40:04 +0200
>
> FTR, I find the new emacs-news-mode very convenient. Hiding it in
> private customizations would remove its convenience.
??? How's that? You make that customization once, and then get to
enjoy the convenience happily ever after. What am I missing?
The customization I had in mind is to tell Emacs to turn on
emacs-news-mode when you visit a file called "NEWS".
> What about
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Local variables:
> coding: utf-8
> eval: (or (fboundp 'emacs-news-mode) (defalias 'emacs-news-mode 'outline-mode))
> mode: emacs-news
> paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
> end:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> 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.
The need to confirm the eval form is an annoyance, because, unlike
some people, I actually read the message and think about it before I
confirm, and that takes time and is a distraction from the main job,
which is to make some change in NEWS.
Really, I very much object to this disruption of my long-time workflow
of working on Emacs, which is that I almost always use the released
version of Emacs and not the development version. I can work around
this, but the need to come up with a good workaround is in itself
almost an insult. And it goes against the basic principle that people
who want a feature should bear the burden of having it.
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