; * lisp/mail/rmail.el (rmail-get-new-mail-hook): Doc fix.

(cherry picked from commit 778f8c793d1c621fc8219644797ef44425bf0bb4)

diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index d422383acdf6cfb5ea06c5d8c587521e00d77d1d..2b119c7a5c7eeb9273ff12759aa7e654ba46130a 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -462,7 +462,9 @@ as argument, to ask the user that question."
   "List of functions to call when Rmail is invoked.")
 
 (defvar rmail-get-new-mail-hook nil
-  "List of functions to call when Rmail has retrieved new mail.")
+  "List of functions to call when Rmail has retrieved new mail.
+The functions are called in `rmail-buffer' narrowed to include
+only the new email messages, with point at the first new mail.")
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defcustom rmail-show-message-hook nil