Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selectedfiles is resides in

[oliver]

"Kai Grossjohann" <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2272.1093180215.2011.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> "oliver" <oliver_baumann@nospam.justemail.net> writes:
>
>> thanks, but with dired-jump i go to the parent dir of the current dir. it
>> does show the dir, which contains thye file on teh urerent line.
>
> You could use RET to open the file, then M-x dired-jump RET to go to
> the directory.  Problem: you have one useless buffer.

thanks for this. however this procedure describes exactly what i'm used to 
do. and it isn't particulaly elegant. additionally, if the case is big 
and/or binary these approach adds some significant overhead.

so, i'm still searching for a better solution.

cheers, oliver