John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2(a)nd.edu> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
I have a few questions about the variable help-selects-help-window:
why is it non-nil by default? When did XEmacs start behaving this
way?
I don't recall, it has been set this way for as long as the source
code has been under CVS (from December 1996).
I am curious about the reasons for this difference. (I also
couldn't
find anything about the change in etc/NEWS or etc/OONEWS. Did I just
miss it, or is it even older than that?)
Those files would be too recent.
(It recently occurred to me that this behavior ought to be
customizable, which of course it is, so at least now I don't have to
be confused by *this* difference between GNU Emacs and XEmacs as I
switch from one to the other.)
Yup. This is another default I don't like at all.