bug#38257: Acknowledgement (27.0.50; ERC does not match or highlight nick surrounded by parens)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 23:30:19 -0500
> Cc: 38257@debbugs.gnu.org, Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
> 
> Finally, the updated patch (against master, but I’m hoping since it
> hasn’t diverged from emacs-27 much yet, it should still apply there):

It's fine with me to push this to the emacs-27 branch.  But I think
perhaps the backward-incompatible change in the syntax table should be
mentioned in NEWS, even though this is according to the RFCs?

Lars, do you have any comments?

Thanks.