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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a8fb4ac9e43..4694d0f1d72 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1778,6 +1778,9 @@ The same mechanism is used to determine the `face' and `help-echo'
 properties of strings in the mode line.  See `bindings.el' for an
 example.
+*** If a mode line element has the form `(:eval FORM)', FORM is
+evaluated and the result is used as mode line element.
 +++
 *** You can suppress mode-line display by setting the buffer-local
 variable mode-line-format to nil.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index a8fb4ac9e43..4694d0f1d72 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1778,6 +1778,9 @@ The same mechanism is used to determine the `face' and `help-echo'
1778	properties of strings in the mode line. See `bindings.el' for an	1778	properties of strings in the mode line. See `bindings.el' for an
1779	example.	1779	example.
1780		1780
		1781	*** If a mode line element has the form `(:eval FORM)', FORM is
		1782	evaluated and the result is used as mode line element.
		1783
1781	+++	1784	+++
1782	*** You can suppress mode-line display by setting the buffer-local	1785	*** You can suppress mode-line display by setting the buffer-local
1783	variable mode-line-format to nil.	1786	variable mode-line-format to nil.