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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 1e1abc2ef339baeb0a37576df499d8a26fb1cdb6..11e71d3d6cba1aae1ad0d22c1439c91cda93c7e4 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1188,6 +1188,14 @@ functions and variables (formerly used for Tamil script).
 
 ** New coding system alias `emacs-internal'.
 
++++
+** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment
+string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms.  The
+variable `generated-autoload-file' similarly controls the name of the
+file where `update-file-autoloads' writes the calls to `autoload'.
+The default values are ";;;###autoload" and `loaddefs.el',
+respectively.
+
 +++
 ** New primitives `list-system-processes' and `system-process-attributes'
 let Lisp programs access the processes that are running on the local