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From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to visit a file and kill the current buffer?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:15:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84r2veifo3.fsf@tm6592> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.245.1505063646.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> writes:

> Is there a way to visit a file in the current window and at the same
> time kill the previous buffer that occupied the current window?

There is `find-alternate-file' which meets your requirements AFAICS.

I use it mostly from dired buffers where the function (actually
`dired-find-alternate-file') is bound to "a".


Ciao
    Marco
         https://marcowahl.github.io


       reply	other threads:[~2017-09-10 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.245.1505063646.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-10 18:15 ` Marco Wahl [this message]
2017-09-10 18:27   ` How to visit a file and kill the current buffer? Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-10 17:13 Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-10 17:24 ` tomas
2017-09-10 17:48   ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-10 18:37     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 19:14       ` tomas
     [not found]       ` <mailman.265.1505070877.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-10 22:13         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 18:18   ` Drew Adams
2017-09-10 18:16 ` Drew Adams

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