From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:33:04 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: * etc/NEWS: Mention new lexical binding conversion aid.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~5575
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* etc/NEWS: Mention new lexical binding conversion aid.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 218c03ab3d4..bae4cb3963e 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1721,6 +1721,13 @@ personalize the uniquified buffer name.
 +++
 ** 'inhibit-nul-byte-detection' is renamed to 'inhibit-null-byte-detection'.
 
++++
+** New byte-compiler check for missing dynamic variable declarations.
+It is meant as an (experimental) aid for converting Emacs Lisp code
+to lexical binding, where dynamic (special) variables bound in one
+file can affect code in another.  For details, see the manual section
+'(Elisp) Converting to Lexical Binding'.
+
 
 * Changes in Emacs 28.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems