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From: Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com>
Date: 25 Dec 1996 23:19:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 24 Dec 1996 12:44:08 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> While we're exploring obscure, little-known features of XEmacs, here's
> another:

> temp-buffer-show-function's value is show-temp-buffer-in-current-frame
>   -- a simple built-in variable.

GNU Emacs has no equivalent to with-displaying-help-buffer, it uses
with-output-to-temp-buffer to display *Help* buffers.  I had a package
that set temp-buffer-show-function to shrink all temp buffers.  The
nice thing was that the shrinkage wasn't restricted to help buffers
alone. 

-Sudish

