Prefer emacs-news-mode in etc/ERC-NEWS

* etc/ERC-NEWS: Remove `outline' from prop line and prefer
`emacs-news-mode' in local variables list.
* lisp/erc/erc.el (erc-news): Overwrite cached file and ask before
re-fetching.

diff --git a/etc/ERC-NEWS b/etc/ERC-NEWS
index e9ec9e2caab1aef2a4bf5f81981cf63d3339c50a..5753120107ad5fe424427cfad4defb31a8d9c8e3 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/ERC-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ERC-NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ERC NEWS                                                       -*- outline -*-
+ERC NEWS
 
 Copyright (C) 2006-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
@@ -1926,5 +1926,6 @@ along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 Local variables:
 coding: utf-8
 mode: outline
+mode: emacs-news
 paragraph-separate: "[         \f]*$"
 end:

diff --git a/lisp/erc/erc.el b/lisp/erc/erc.el
index 2c2df81fa6d0590b1b0c5efda46d676f1a1cb6d4..99505a2355f237cee253d71d2fd516085798de00 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/erc/erc.el
+++ b/lisp/erc/erc.el
@@ -7458,8 +7458,9 @@ With ARG, download and display the latest revision, which may
 contain more up-to-date information, even for older versions."
   (interactive "P")
   (find-file
-   (or (and arg erc--news-temp-file
+   (or (and erc--news-temp-file
             (time-less-p (current-time) (car erc--news-temp-file))
+            (not (and arg (y-or-n-p (format "Re-fetch? "))))
             (cdr erc--news-temp-file))
        (and arg
             (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously erc--news-url)
@@ -7467,7 +7468,10 @@ contain more up-to-date information, even for older versions."
               (search-forward "200 OK" (pos-eol))
               (search-forward "\n\n")
               (delete-region (point-min) (point))
-              (let ((tempfile (make-temp-file "erc-news.")))
+              ;; May warn about file having changed on disk (unless
+              ;; `query-about-changed-file' is nil on 28+).
+              (let ((tempfile (or (cdr erc--news-temp-file)
+                                  (make-temp-file "erc-news."))))
                 (write-region (point-min) (point-max) tempfile)
                 (kill-buffer)
                 (cdr (setq erc--news-temp-file
@@ -7482,13 +7486,12 @@ contain more up-to-date information, even for older versions."
        (expand-file-name "ERC-NEWS" data-directory)))
   (when (fboundp 'emacs-news-view-mode)
     (emacs-news-view-mode))
+  (goto-char (point-min))
   (let ((v (mapcar #'number-to-string
                    (seq-take-while #'natnump (version-to-list erc-version)))))
-    (while (and v
-                (goto-char (point-min))
-                (not (search-forward (concat "\014\n* Changes in ERC "
-                                             (string-join v "."))
-                                     nil t)))
+    (while (and v (not (search-forward (concat "\014\n* Changes in ERC "
+                                               (string-join v "."))
+                                       nil t)))
       (setq v (butlast v))))
   (beginning-of-line))