From 142260f79d989ccbdc7bcf7e14dea2602aab931c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chong Yidong Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:58:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Addition of INSIDE_EMACS, and deprecation of EMACS. --- etc/NEWS | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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: -- 2.39.5