bug#31231: Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:34:17 +1200
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
> Cc: 31231@debbugs.gnu.org,
>       bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org>
> 
> 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.

Technically, the solution is simple.  The problem is elsewhere, IMO.