Re: Dislike: shell opens in different window

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:40:36 -0400
> 
> Having recently switched to emacs v25, I notice that now (shell) uses 
> (pop-to-buffer) rather than its former (pop-to-buffer-same-window) ~line 722 
> of shell.el. I very much dislike this change because I sometimes use complex 
> and deliberate window setups, which are screwed up by this behavior. I 
> changed it back on my system; is there a place I can find an explanation for 
> this change? Also, is there a conventional way to find out in what version 
> this change was made? 

See etc/NEWS, where you will find the description of the change, and
also a way to get the old behavior back.