From: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:44:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Reading from mini-buffer reads from stdin if noninteractive.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~6196
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df5a19027a8d04cf332435b2380210fa01e0d438;p=emacs.git

Reading from mini-buffer reads from stdin if noninteractive.
---

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 4420bdc7c9b..a8fb4ac9e43 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ the --without-pop configure option, should that be necessary.
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+** Reading from the mini-buffer now reads from standard input if Emacs
+is running in batch mode.  For example,
+
+  (message "%s" (read t))
+
+will read a Lisp expression from standard input and print the result
+to standard output.
+
 ** Faces and frame parameters.
 
 There are four new faces `scroll-bar', `border', `cursor' and `mouse'.