From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired in one buffer Date: 16 Aug 2006 04:57:25 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1155729444.999237.117170@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155732078 14692 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2006 12:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 16 14:41:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GDKhr-0001em-Sf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:41:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GDKhr-0007BZ-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:41:11 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1155729450 12667 127.0.0.1 (16 Aug 2006 11:57:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:57:30 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141090 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36716 Archived-At: henning wrote: > I would like dired to stay in the same buffer, e.g. when I go up one > directory I would like the present buffer to just clear and be replaced by > the content in the parent folder instead of opening a new buffer. If find it > quite annoying to have a stack of dired buffers open after looking around in > the directory tree... Does anyone know how to implement that? Or am I > missing something? Using standard dired, instead of entering a directory by pressing "return" use "a" this replaces the dired buffer with the new directory.