bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:18:02 +0200
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, 
> 50674@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The splash screen button could load the file from any place we want,
> > so if that is the problem, I don't understand all the sub-thread about
> > where to put the file.  E.g., we could put it in etc/.
> 
> I'm also not sure what problem this are trying to solve, indeed.
> IIUC, it is that "lisp/textmodes" is too cluttered, or something?

Doesn't sound like a problem to me.

> If we put it outside of 'load-path' we can't put it in
> 'auto-mode-alist', and you can't just M-x etc-authors-mode, etc.

Indeed.