Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Otherwise you get problem that when SWI-Prolog is run from a
>> Makefile that sets EMACS to "emacs" (or somesuch) it'll think it's
>> running inside Emacs.

> Such circumstances are probably negligibly rare: interactive programs
> (which should be the only ones that care about the EMACS envvar) are
> generally not run from Makefiles.

Could be.  I also thought that the conflict between Makefile's use of $EMACS
and comint's use of it would be negligibly rare, but obviously, it's been
found important enough.

I just think that if we're going to break compatibility, we may as well do
it "once and forall".


        Stefan