Re: Pertinent NEWS parts for the Emacs 26 manual draft

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:55:15 -0400
> 
>   > > THe parts to include are those about changes in user commands and
>   > > user-visible behavior, but excluding changes in modes that are not
>   > > documented in the Emacs manual (which is most of them).
> 
>   > Maybe I misunderstand, but don't the "+++" markers in NEWS already
>   > tell that?
> 
> Whether the +++ markings are a reliable guide depends on the state of
> work on NEWS.  They might not yet have been put in; they might have
> been removed.  An item might have a --- instead, put there because
> someone mistakenly thought that item isn't pertinent to the Emacs
> Manual.

Since I've already asked Nicolas to make a pretest for Emacs 26.1, it
should be clear that NEWS was already reviewed (by me in this case),
and any such blunders, if there were ones, were already fixed.

> Supposing that at present all pertineny items have a +++ marking, they
> don't necessarily refer to the Emacs Manual; some indicate that a
> feature has been documented in the Emacs Lisp Manual.

NEWS has separate sections for Lisp and non-Lisp changes.