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Sep 28, 2014 at 3:59 comment added Drew The condition you are describing, of having multiple Dired buffers for the same directory, can be summarized this way: non-nil (cadr (dired-buffers-for-dir (expand-file-name DIRECTORY))). However that is arising, you can test for it this way.
Sep 26, 2014 at 23:43 history edited Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' CC BY-SA 3.0
focus on the actual question
Sep 25, 2014 at 7:38 history edited Rainer CC BY-SA 3.0
Add explanation why behaviour was observed
Sep 25, 2014 at 7:35 comment added Rainer No - but I tried just now to open the same directory twice, and it switches to the already open window. But I think I know now why I have the duplicates: when I access the same directory via different paths (via symlinked paths), I seem to have the duplicates. So it seems that dired only opens one window per directory. I will add this to the question (which is not a question anymore as based on a user error.
Sep 24, 2014 at 18:32 comment added Vamsi Have you customized any setting related to display-buffer or display-buffer-alist ?
Sep 24, 2014 at 11:48 comment added Malabarba I'm confused, isn't this the default behaviour? When you say When I open a directory, what method are you using?
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Sep 24, 2014 at 11:03 history edited Rainer CC BY-SA 3.0
change fired to dired
Sep 24, 2014 at 11:03 comment added Rainer This was the spellchecker...... fired=dired.
Sep 24, 2014 at 10:51 comment added Malabarba Is fired a package? Or did you do the same typo 3 times?
Sep 24, 2014 at 9:20 comment added T. Verron Pressing RET runs dired-find-file, which opens another buffer. dired-find-alternate-file reuses the current buffer, is that what you want?
Sep 24, 2014 at 9:14 history asked Rainer CC BY-SA 3.0