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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2006-11-18 20:58:52 +0000
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2006-11-18 20:58:52 +0000
commit142260f79d989ccbdc7bcf7e14dea2602aab931c (patch)
treea0fd8acd80b54702c8b98395f8cd508e1a1f72c8
parentd8d555f293dc2f35ed35bd06f18c074d27e2197f (diff)
downloademacs-142260f79d989ccbdc7bcf7e14dea2602aab931c.tar.gz
Addition of INSIDE_EMACS, and deprecation of EMACS.
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index eb2532c18da..3730a489dc0 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1455,8 +1455,11 @@ otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
but declared obsolete.
+++
-*** The EMACS environment variable now defaults to Emacs's absolute
-file name, instead of to "t".
+*** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in
+subshells running inside Emacs. This supersedes the EMACS environment
+variable, which will be removed in a future Emacs release. Programs
+that need to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check
+INSIDE_EMACS instead of EMACS.
** M-x Compile changes: