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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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