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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: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 54993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54993: 28.1; Editing etc/NEWS on master with Emacs 28 signals an error
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:04:15 +0200

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

> Yes.  So maybe instead Outline mode in Emacs 29 could turn on
> emacs-news-mode automatically when the file's name is NEWS or NEWS.*
> or ONEWS.

That sounds like a very ugly and unpredictable hack.

>> emacs-news-mode is quite major-modeish, though, so I think that would be
>> awkward.
>
> I don't see why.  What do you see in emacs-news-mode that doesn't fit
> a minor mode?

It sets font-lock keywords, for instance.

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