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Explain when user-mail-address is set.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Tue, 31 Oct 1995 05:59:44 +0000
parents c8b89eac76b2
children d2d72cc7ee52
files lispref/os.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lispref/os.texi	Tue Oct 31 05:26:32 1995 +0000
+++ b/lispref/os.texi	Tue Oct 31 05:59:44 1995 +0000
@@ -759,8 +759,10 @@
 
 @defvar user-mail-address
 This holds the nominal email address of the user who is using Emacs.
-When Emacs starts up, it computes a default value that is usually right,
-but users often set this themselves when the default value is not right.
+Emacs normally sets this variable to a default value after reading your
+init files, but not if you have already set it.  So you can set the
+variable to some other value in your @file{~/.emacs} file if you do not
+want to use the default value.
 @end defvar
 
 @defun user-login-name &optional uid