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Addition of INSIDE_EMACS, and deprecation of EMACS.
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:58:52 +0000
parents ec1b7bc39b5e
children bc5d69739d5e
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Sat Nov 18 17:42:32 2006 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sat Nov 18 20:58:52 2006 +0000
@@ -1455,8 +1455,11 @@
 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.
 
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