diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8f271f5..11f158a 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2023,5 +2023,6 @@ along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 Local variables:
 coding: utf-8
 mode: outline
+eval: (progn (require 'electric) (electric-quote-local-mode t))
 paragraph-separate: "[ 	]*$"
 end: