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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: 54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54993: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:38:57 +0200

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

> 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.

Not using the trunk to edit files from the trunk sounds rather
error-prone.  Indentation rules etc has changed.

> Please make it possible to edit NEWS conveniently with older versions
> of Emacs.

You can still edit the file -- you just get an error message (which you
can ignore).

We could remove the mode cookie, of course, but then we'd have to put
etc/NEWS in auto-mode-alist, which would yield false positives for other
files with that name.

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