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In emacs 23.3.1 on ubuntu 11.10, I have dired-plus installed. In my .emacs, I have:

(require 'dired+)
(toggle-diredp-find-file-reuse-dir 1)

When I press RET on a directory then C-x C-b, the Buffer List shows that there is only one buffer in use for dired. However, after I use ^, I have two dired buffers. C-x C-b confirms that there are two buffers: one for parent dir, one for child dir.

Is there anyway to keep the reuse work for ^ ?

Thank you.

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One can also open a new directory or file in Dired, without creating a new buffer, with the key 'a' (dired-find-alternate-file).

It's a disabled command, this code enable it:


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I found one solution: using dired-single

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