When I use dired mode to browse around and find a file I want to open in Emacs, dired opens a new buffer for each directory I visit when looking for the file each time I select a directory with Enter, which means I can end up with a lot of buffers I don't want:
. * newer 0 Fundamental c:/work/stackoverflow/batch/mydir/newer
% mydir 302 Dired by name c:/work/stackoverflow/batch/mydir/
% batch 616 Dired by name c:/work/stackoverflow/batch/
% stackoverflow 1017 Dired by name c:/work/stackoverflow/
% work 2545 Dired by name c:/work/
* *scratch* 190 Lisp Interaction
% *Completions* 162 Completion List
* *Messages* 2163 Fundamental
Is there any way to make dired re-use a single buffer? I tried M-x customize-group for group dired but didn't see anything promising in there.
Alternatively, does anyone have a macro to close all open dired buffers?
