; * etc/NEWS: Copyedits.

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@@ -17,45 +17,37 @@ with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
 
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 * Changes in Emacs 25.2
-This is a bug-fix release with (almost) no new features.
 
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+This is mainly a bug-fix release, but there are some other changes.
+
 ** 'find-library', 'help-function-def' and 'help-variable-def' now run
 'find-function-after-hook'.
 
-+++
 ** New basic face 'fixed-pitch-serif', for a fixed-width font with serifs.
-The 'Info-quoted' and 'tex-verbatim' faces now default to inheriting
-from it.
+The 'Info-quoted' and 'tex-verbatim' faces inherit from it by default.
 
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-** New variable 'use-default-font-for-symbols' for backward compatibility.
-This variable allows to get back pre-Emacs 25 behavior whereby the
+** New variable 'use-default-font-for-symbols', for backward compatibility.
+This variable allows you to get back pre-Emacs 25 behavior where the
 font for displaying symbol and punctuation characters was always
-selected according to your fontset setup.  Emacs 25 by default tries
-to use the default face's font for such characters, disregarding the
-fontsets if the default font supports these characters.  Set this
-variable to nil to disable the new behavior and get back the old
-behavior.
+selected according to your fontset setup.  By default, Emacs 25 tries
+to use the default face's font for such characters, if it supports
+them, disregarding the fontsets.  Set this variable to nil to disable
+this and get back the old behavior.
 
-+++
 ** 'electric-quote-mode' is no longer suppressed in a buffer whose
-whose coding system cannot represent curved quote characters.
+coding system cannot represent curved quote characters.
 Instead, users can deal with the unrepresentable characters in the
 usual way when they save the buffer.
 
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 ** New variable 'inhibit-compacting-font-caches'.
 Set this variable to a non-nil value to speed up display of characters
-using large fonts, at the price of a larger memory footprint of the
-Emacs session.
+using large fonts, at the price of a larger memory footprint.
 
-+++
 ** The version number of CC Mode has been changed from 5.33 to
 5.32.99, although the software itself hasn't changed.  This aims to
 reduce confusion with the standalone CC Mode 5.33 (available from
 http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net), which is a more mature version than
-the one in Emacs 25.2.
+the one included in Emacs 25.2.
 
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 * Installation Changes in Emacs 25.1