# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1153565793 0
# Node ID 21e42eee763ce6c54b9f7e29122a28e1ea979663
# Parent  e0c1e87a986fff5605eb0c4734150778f59d4ba3
Document use of EMAIL.

diff -r e0c1e87a986f -r 21e42eee763c etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Sat Jul 22 10:48:46 2006 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sat Jul 22 10:56:33 2006 +0000
@@ -238,6 +238,11 @@
 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