bug#20598: 25.0.50; Dired: re-use buffers

[Stefan Kangas]

Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org> writes:

> is there a way to reuse Dired buffers without relying on an external
> package (in this case: Dired+)?
>
> I think it is a handy solution that would make Dired much more pleasant
> to use.

You could use the dired-find-alternate-file command, bound by default
to "a".  You can find more information here:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredReuseDirectoryBuffer

However, "a" does not take care of "^", so maybe it would also be good
to add a new option to always reuse the current dired buffer?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas