Subject: bug#20598: 25.0.50; Dired: re-use buffers

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:54:47 +0200

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> You could use the dired-find-alternate-file command, bound by default
> to "a".  You can find more information here:
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredReuseDirectoryBuffer
>
> However, "a" does not take care of "^", so maybe it would also be good
> to add a new option to always reuse the current dired buffer?

Yeah, I think adding a new option here would be good -- I think reusing
the dired buffer feels natural when traversing directories.

And it shouldn't be difficult to implement.  Which dired commands would
be affected by this?  `ret' on a sub-directory, and `^'...  any others?

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