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Re: Why "EMACS=24.4.91.2 (term:0.96)" in term-exec-1?


From: Oleh Krehel
Subject: Re: Why "EMACS=24.4.91.2 (term:0.96)" in term-exec-1?
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:21:55 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.91 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Oleh Krehel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:15:48 +0200
>> 
>>     ;; We are going to get rid of the binding for EMACS,
>>     ;; probably in Emacs 23, because it breaks
>>     ;; `./configure' of some packages that expect it to
>>     ;; say where to find EMACS.
>>     (format "EMACS=%s (term:%s)" emacs-version term-protocol-version)
>> 
>> So I have two questions: what was the reason for setting this variable,
>> and can we remove it?
>
> I think these discussions will answer your first question:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00255.html
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00897.html

Thanks, Eli. Is it time to get rid of the binding for EMACS, just like
the comment says?

My current solution is to use "emacs" instead of "EMACS" as a variable
in all Makefiles. I'd prefer to use the caps.



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