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Document use of EMAIL.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:56:33 +0000
parents e0c1e87a986f
children cf25c4a644cd
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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