From 0090dcf510b4ec6939e96bcd9d5e5e1ee5e7423d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:56:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document use of EMAIL. --- etc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 1f8ccf91d96..f06bee9badc 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -238,6 +238,11 @@ automatically at startup, if it exists. When Emacs offers to save modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed. It can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first, according to the value of `save-abbrevs'. + ++++ +** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value +to compute the default value of `use-mail-address', in preference to +concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine. * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1 -- 2.30.2