# HG changeset patch
# User Markus Rost <rost@math.uni-bielefeld.de>
# Date 1021910966 0
# Node ID a6a0b2ed4734f21395d0f5f3b1f9d40f9bf3ca7a
# Parent  f1efd61b5d9c343bace4999b19468e8267988bbe
Mention new user option `mail-default-directory'.

diff -r f1efd61b5d9c -r a6a0b2ed4734 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Mon May 20 16:05:56 2002 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon May 20 16:09:26 2002 +0000
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
 
 * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
+** There is a new user option `mail-default-directory' that allows you
+to specify the value of `default-directory' for mail buffers.  This
+directory is used for auto-save files of mail buffers.  It defaults to
+"~/".
+
 ** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
 
 ** Emacs now supports new configure options `--program-prefix',