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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1995-10-31 05:59:44 +0000 |
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committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1995-10-31 05:59:44 +0000 |
commit | 79d81811d5d225f05d5ad8d2afdb193aeb708abd (patch) | |
tree | a78067d0d9c6788761bed05d627a90e7728678b3 /lispref | |
parent | cae5c89a76eac03388bc7f0d27cb8a65022045c8 (diff) | |
download | emacs-79d81811d5d225f05d5ad8d2afdb193aeb708abd.tar.gz |
Explain when user-mail-address is set.
Diffstat (limited to 'lispref')
-rw-r--r-- | lispref/os.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/os.texi b/lispref/os.texi index 0dbb243d7e6..f941b3bfb05 100644 --- a/lispref/os.texi +++ b/lispref/os.texi @@ -759,8 +759,10 @@ indicating whether the privilege is currently enabled. @defvar user-mail-address This holds the nominal email address of the user who is using Emacs. -When Emacs starts up, it computes a default value that is usually right, -but users often set this themselves when the default value is not right. +Emacs normally sets this variable to a default value after reading your +init files, but not if you have already set it. So you can set the +variable to some other value in your @file{~/.emacs} file if you do not +want to use the default value. @end defvar @defun user-login-name &optional uid |