Re: HTML-formatted NEWS for Emacs 29

> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:14:12 +0100 (BST)
> From: Peter Oliver <[email protected]>
> cc: [email protected]
> 
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2026, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 
> > but for the edits to
> > the NEWS files, can I regenerate those myself instead of just applying
> > your diff?  That way we verify everything is in sync.
> 
> Sure.  My process was:
> 
> 1. Observe that the following code in make-news-html-file would move back too far if the lisp snippet it had found in the NEWS file was not preceded by a blank line:
> 
>      ;; Format code blocks.
>      (while (re-search-forward "^    " nil t)
>        (let ((elisp-block (looking-at "(")))
>          (backward-paragraph)
> 
> 2. Run `grep -B1 '^    (' etc/NEWS*`, and manually fix anything that looked like it would trip up the code mentioned in 1.

It would be good not to have such requirements for formatting NEWS; we
already have too many.  Otherwise, someone will; need to remember to
run the above before release. to make sure the expectations are met.