Improve 'C-h o' in NEWS files

* lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el (emacs-news--mode-common):
Modify syntax-table of NEWS modes to consider ' as string-quoting
character.  Suggested by Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>.
(Bug#72757)

(cherry picked from commit 5cb218596639d87f4114968b8555ce19eb2c5ea2)

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el
index c3347ac448e02bd7af15a55b4eca7565c1e1c52f..fc16f4f1810f7f86513bd5c9d94c95092e3ac980 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@
               outline-minor-mode-use-buttons 'in-margins)
   (outline-minor-mode)
   (setq-local imenu-generic-expression outline-imenu-generic-expression)
+  ;; This is so 'C-h o' picks up correctly symbols quoted 'like this'.
+  (modify-syntax-entry ?' "\"")
   (emacs-etc--hide-local-variables))
 
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