I'm using neotree and as you know it opens a file in the most recent window split you accessed before switching to neotree (window 0).
Sometimes this last accessed split is the ansi-term window I have below (see chart), in this case spacemacs open a file in the terminal split, which is not what I want.
How do I distinguish the terminal split to neotree so that it chooses a "regular" one?
Possibly, this issue is not specific to spacemacs but to emacs in general.
(info "(elisp)Choosing Window"). If I had to guess, your issue is not Spacemacs specific, but it is Neotree specific --that's just a guess. – Omar Aug 11 at 14:39