Document new prog-mode symbol prettify support.

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diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index 5b6441f06c5..f80c1b6973c 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-06-05  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
+
+        * NEWS: Document new prog-mode symbol prettify support.
+
 2013-06-03  Tassilo Horn  <tsdh@gnu.org>
 
         * NEWS: Document eshell visual subcommands and options.
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 271d3148b0b..0b533efe163 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2838,6 +2838,11 @@ should be derived.
 modes, e.g. (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode) to enable
 on-the-fly spell checking for comments and strings.
 
+**** New option, `prog-prettify-symbols' lets the user control symbol
+prettify (replacing a string like "lambda" with the Greek lambda
+character.  The mode derived from `prog-mode' must call
+`prog-prettify-install' with its own custom alist, which can be empty.
+
 *** New hook `change-major-mode-after-body-hook', run by
 `run-mode-hooks' just before any other mode hooks.