Disable by default and add NEWS entry to the new completion behavior

* etc/NEWS: Announce 'completion-auto-select'.
* lisp/simple.el (completion-auto-select): Default to nil.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 57fe40c48812f0981b3c0d2695893cc6a5c82657..f41d49e224f3f210c58abbb377e1efb8617462ca 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -301,6 +301,10 @@ case keys.
 This command increases (or decreases) the number of empty lines before
 point.
 
+** The *Completions* buffer can now be automatically selected
+To enable this behavior, customize the option 'completion-auto-select'
+to t.
+
 ---
 *** Improved mouse behavior with auto-scrolling modes.
 When clicking inside the 'scroll-margin' or 'hscroll-margin' region

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index eb21814a3d469a8c5355dd0769ec54c6df39ba9a..13fbc6ac3999aa39b91c94bb1ec61f40e6158a2c 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -9259,7 +9259,7 @@ Called from `temp-buffer-show-hook'."
   :version "22.1"
   :group 'completion)
 
-(defcustom completion-auto-select t
+(defcustom completion-auto-select nil
   "Non-nil means to automatically select the completions buffer."
   :type 'boolean
   :version "29.1"