Good call. I've changed it to using view-buffer-other-window instead, which I think gets us where we want to be - it opens the NEWS file in view-mode, but also in another window as is consistent with previous behaviour.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, at 05:39, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> "Nicholas Savage" <nick@nicksavage.ca> writes:
> 
> > -    (pop-to-buffer (find-file-noselect file))
> > +    (view-buffer (find-file-noselect file))
> 
> pop-to-buffer opens the NEWS buffer in a different window, though, while
> view-buffer stays in the same window.  So perhaps it should pop first
> and then call view-buffer?
> 
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