From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how can I get back to the dired buffer after closing the file buffer opened by dired? Date: 28 Oct 2017 16:24:53 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509207929 17007 195.159.176.226 (28 Oct 2017 16:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:25:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 18:25:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e8TvG-0003g3-B0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:25:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8TvN-0006NX-JF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:25:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net NPnTbCYJV6iIGgKxmaiwxQoMcAVKxD0JKNzSIyfSFZ5tavkBCa Cancel-Lock: sha1:rU7AadcIxYzlD4DrD2ymNJTnDb8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220574 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114683 Archived-At: On 2017-10-28, Amos Bird wrote: > When opening a file in dired via RET and close, emacs ends up in a > buffer other than previous dired > buffer. How can I get back to the dired buffer after closing the > file buffer opened by dired? Try opening emacs directly into dired. Then, all "close" (except close emacs (C-x C-c), commands will bring you back to a dired screen. I open my Slackware emacs (Gnu Emacs 24.3-no-X11) with: dired / Then, all other features work, but they all go back to dired upon closing. Otherwise, you are likely to end up on a "scratch" screen. nb