From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:58:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Addition of INSIDE_EMACS, and deprecation of EMACS.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.91~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=142260f79d989ccbdc7bcf7e14dea2602aab931c;p=emacs.git

Addition of INSIDE_EMACS, and deprecation of EMACS.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index eb2532c18da..3730a489dc0 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1455,8 +1455,11 @@ otherwise behaves quite similarly to the bash version.
 but declared obsolete.
 
 +++
-*** The EMACS environment variable now defaults to Emacs's absolute
-file name, instead of to "t".
+*** The new INSIDE_EMACS environment variable is set to "t" in
+subshells running inside Emacs.  This supersedes the EMACS environment
+variable, which will be removed in a future Emacs release.  Programs
+that need to know whether they are started inside Emacs should check
+INSIDE_EMACS instead of EMACS.
 
 ** M-x Compile changes: