Re: comint.el: EMACS environment variable

[Chong Yidong]

Markus Triska <address@hidden> writes:

> The change installed with CVS version 1.347 of comint.el breaks
> interaction with SWI Prolog in modes using comint-mode (e.g., shell
> and prolog-mode). SWI Prolog is an interactive program using the GNU
> readline library. The change has the same effect as an additional
> <RET> after sending the input to the inferior process (using <RET>).

The change in question was

  2006-09-12  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

  * comint.el (comint-exec-1): Set EMACS to the full name of Emacs,
    not to "t".

Do you remember what the rationale for this change was?