On 10/09/17 13:15, Marco Wahl wrote:
> 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".

This is what I was looking for. I will also use the dired keystroke you
mentioned.

I noticed that IDO binds C-x C-v to its own variant of this function,
which does the same but uses the IDO facility for entering the file-name.

Thanks to everybody who replied.

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