bug#20403: Antw: Re: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:16:57 +0100
> From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
> Cc: <20403@debbugs.gnu.org>,<stefan@marxist.se>
> 
> ChangeLog-like files, especially when being more or less chronological always
> cause trouble when merging

NEWS is not a chronological file.  Its order is more or less random.

> > If we want a better NEWS, I'd suggest to introduce a new mode, which
> > will inherit from Outline mode, but will support some sort of
> > "include" directive.  Then we could have a NEWS file that just
> > "include"d the versioned files, and Emacs would display their
> > contents, perhaps given some user command to expand a given version's
> > news.  As a bonus, this would let us have a single NEWS file, from
> > user's POV, like other (smaller) projects do.
> 
> Hmm:? Minor-mode "include-view" that presents a (read-only) view of a document
> with all includes expanded. Actual include syntax would be delegated to some
> functions or REGEXes...

I cannot find include-view anywhere in Emacs.  What did I miss?

In any case, we need a derivative of Outline mode, so that readers
could fold and expand sub-entries.  The Emacs NEWS file is very large,
and most users aren't interested in every single piece of news.

Thanks.