From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why "EMACS=24.4.91.2 (term:0.96)" in term-exec-1? Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:42:00 +0300 Message-ID: <837ftyzgw7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mp2oq8b.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427726608 25916 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2015 14:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleh Krehel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 16:43:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycau3-0003O9-Ot for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:42:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycau2-0000Uc-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycatm-0000UT-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycatj-0003SQ-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:42:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:36062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycatj-0003SC-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NM100F004A63000@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:37:26 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NM100ARD4ME4R60@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:37:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874mp2oq8b.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:184548 Archived-At: > From: Oleh Krehel > 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