Re: dired: goto directory of a file

[Kai Grossjohann]

leo <leo@bella.local> writes:

> in a dired buffer (particu;ar in a dired-find buffer) it would be very
> handy to be able to jump to the containing directory of a file:
>
> eg. the dired buffer shows the line
>
>   -rw-r--r--  1 leo  staff  618385 30 Nov 08:29 Audio/Apps/iCDc4.3.3.dmg.sit
>
> then just jump to the directory Audio/Apps in a new dired window.

You can do RET on the file and then use dired-jump.  (dired-jump is
part of dired-x.  C-x j might be a good binding for it, as
jump-to-register is also available as C-x r j.)

Kai