Document use of EMAIL.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 1f8ccf91d962df94d6be2b6b152e95a01ee281e9..f06bee9badc06289e20e838c2482da09dff6cb51 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -238,6 +238,11 @@ automatically at startup, if it exists.  When Emacs offers to save
 modified buffers, it saves the abbrevs too if they have changed.  It
 can do this either silently or asking for confirmation first,
 according to the value of `save-abbrevs'.
+
++++
+** If the environment variable EMAIL is defined, Emacs now uses its value
+to compute the default value of `use-mail-address', in preference to
+concatenation of `user-login-name' with the name of your host machine.
 \f
 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 22.1