Re: dired in one buffer

[robert . thorpe]

henning wrote:
> I would like dired to stay in the same buffer, e.g. when I go up one
> directory I would like the present buffer to just clear and be replaced by
> the content in the parent folder instead of opening a new buffer. If find it
> quite annoying to have a stack of dired buffers open after looking around in
> the directory tree... Does anyone know how to implement that? Or am I
> missing something?

Using standard dired, instead of entering a directory by pressing
"return" use "a" this replaces the dired buffer with the new directory.