bug#31231: Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs

[Phil Sainty]

On 2018-04-22 08:21, Juri Linkov wrote:
> This solution is not applicable to NEWS files where
> text-mode syntax tables are inherited via outline-mode
> whose syntax table can't be changed.

Of course a new derived major mode could be defined with such
a syntax table.

The NEWS files set their mode with a local variable, so that
could be trivially changed if need be.

(Not arguing for or against the change, though.)