Note changes in ;;;### parsing

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 597f92cfce3b2bf365d35d0ce1cf35cf540e7c08..87cd41ec0148e19447416e694a641ec4f1cd884d 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1752,6 +1752,11 @@ so using 'M-x update-file-autoloads' no longer works.  (This didn't
 work well in most files in the past, either, but it will now signal an
 error in any file.)
 
+In addition, files are scanned in a slightly different way.
+Previously ;;;### specs inside a top-level form (i.e., something like
+(when ... ;;;### ...) would be ignored.  They are now parsed as
+normal.
+
 +++
 ** 'buffer-modified-p' has been extended.
 This function was previously documented to return only nil or t.  This