Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> writes: >> 3. The entry in NEWS for the Org mode update mentions ORG-NEWS, but it >> doesn't say how to get to it. (Yes, I know how to get to ORG-NEWS from >> NEWS. Do we expect random users to understand the layout of an >> installed Emacs at that level of detail?) > > And I guess this one is for Emacs's side at the time of the sync. > > I was looking through the NEWS* files in the Emacs repo for guidance > from other packages, but I see mostly the same thing ("GNUS-NEWS", > "MH-E-NEWS", "ERC-NEWS", ...). I guess there is one that's a little > different, though I'm not sure how helpful tacking on "./" is: "See the > file ./MH-E-NEWS for details". > > Do you have any suggestions for what would be more helpful to put there?
28.1 introduces etc-authors-mode; perhaps, in a similar vein, we could add etc-news-mode, and add have the mode initialization function buttonize these cross-references? (Older emacsen would get confused by the "mode: etc-news" clause in newer NEWS files, though…)