From 79d81811d5d225f05d5ad8d2afdb193aeb708abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 05:59:44 +0000 Subject: Explain when user-mail-address is set. --- lispref/os.texi | 6 ++++-- 1 file 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 -- cgit v1.2.1