Subject: bug#44023: dired-allow-duplicate-buffers

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:32:29 +0200

Boruch Baum <[email-masked]> writes:

> Also, implicit in the comment for `dired-find-buffer-nocreate' is that
> more than one match may exist for a dired directory buffer.
>
> So, maybe this once existed or was planned?

Dired has always supported having several buffers visiting the same
directory, so I'm not quite sure what the proposed patch is trying to
fix.  You just rename the buffer to something else, like with any
command that defaults to a single buffer name (like, say, `M-x grep').

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