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I have a little issue, not too big but a little annoying.

Suppose I open 3 windows in my Emacs GNU like this:

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Once I position myself in any window (the largest one, in this screenshot) and press/type M-x shell, the sub shell opens in the next window, which is in this case the first one.

I wonder why this happens and how to fix it?

Billal Begueradj
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    The following link demonstrates how to make a shell buffer that does not display in any window by default, and then there are a variety of examples demonstrating how to display the shell buffer with built-in functions and there is also a custom function to display it wherever you want; e.g., above, below, left, right. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/28924/2287 – lawlist Jul 13 '18 at 14:53
  • (I wonder if this question might be a duplicate...) – Drew Jul 13 '18 at 18:00

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By default emacs will display the shell buffer in a different window from the selected one. You can override this by using display-buffer-alist to specify different actions based on the buffer name. In this case, setting it to 

(setq display-buffer-alist '((".*\\*shell\\*.*" display-buffer-same-window (nil))))

will get you the behaviour you want, although it's probably better to do

M-x customize-variable RET display-buffer-alist RET

There are many options available for how windows are chosen, read

C-h f display-buffer

for the gory details.

Drew
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