|--==> "DM" == David Masterson <dmaster(a)synopsys.com&gt; writes: DM> For some reason that I haven't isolated, Dired often (but not always) DM> fails to reuse a buffer. That is, if I run dired on a directory, then DM> quit that buffer, then re-dired the directory, Dired will create a new DM> buffer ("dir<2>") rather than reuse the old buffer ("dir"). This DM> doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen (for me) most of the DM> time. Please do 'M-x dired-report-bug' so the Dired boys and girls can track the bug down. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|

I think this problem is related to differing buffer-file-name for the same directory. Exhibit 1: . % tmp<2> 47598 Dired c:\users\aichnerad\tmp\ % tmp 47598 Dired c:\Users\AichnerAd\tmp\ Dired-related info: Package: Dired current state: ============== (setq dired-version "7.10" dired-backup-if-overwrite nil dired-chown-program "/etc/chown" dired-cleanup-alist '(("tex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".dvi") ("latex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".idx" ".lof" ".lot" ".glo" ".dvi") ("bibtex" ".blg" ".bbl") ("texinfo" ".cp" ".cps" ".fn" ".fns" ".ky" ".kys" ".pg" ".pgs" ".tp" ".tps" ".vr" ".vrs") ("patch" ".rej" ".orig") ("backups" "~") ("completion-ignored-extensions" "CVS/" ".o" ".obj" ".elc" "~" ".bin" ".lbin" ".dvi" ".class") ) dired-compression-method 'gzip dired-compression-method-alist '((gzip ".gz" ("gzip" "-9") ("gzip" "-d") "-f") (compress ".Z" ("compress" "-f") ("compress" "-d") "-f") (pack ".z" ("pack" "-f") ("unpack"))) dired-copy-preserve-time t dired-dwim-target nil dired-failed-marker-shell ?! dired-filename-re-ext "\\..+\\'" dired-find-subdir nil dired-gnutar-program nil dired-keep-marker-compress t dired-keep-marker-copy ?C dired-keep-marker-hardlink ?H dired-keep-marker-kill ?K dired-keep-marker-rename t dired-keep-marker-symlink ?S dired-keep-marker-uucode ?U dired-kept-versions 2 dired-listing-switches "-al" dired-local-variables-file ".dired" dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks nil dired-ls-program "ls" dired-mail-reader 'vm dired-mode-line-modified "-%s%s%s-" dired-no-confirm nil dired-omit-extensions '(".class" ".lbin" ".bin" ".elc" ".obj" ".o" "CVS/" "~" ".orig" ".rej" ".vrs" ".vr" ".tps" ".tp" ".pgs" ".pg" ".kys" ".ky" ".fns" ".fn" ".cps" ".cp" ".bbl" ".blg" ".glo" ".lot" ".lof" ".idx" ".dvi" ".aux" ".log" ".toc") dired-omit-files nil dired-omit-regexps '("\\`#" "\\`\\.") dired-refresh-automatically t dired-show-ls-switches nil dired-trivial-filenames "\\`\\.\\.?\\'\\|\\`#" dired-unshar-program nil dired-use-file-transformers t dired-verify-modtimes t reporter-version "3.35" ) SY> |--==> "DM" == David Masterson <dmaster(a)synopsys.com&gt; writes: DM> For some reason that I haven't isolated, Dired often (but not always) DM> fails to reuse a buffer. That is, if I run dired on a directory, then DM> quit that buffer, then re-dired the directory, Dired will create a new DM> buffer ("dir<2>") rather than reuse the old buffer ("dir"). This DM> doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen (for me) most of the DM> time. SY> Please do 'M-x dired-report-bug' so the Dired boys and girls can track SY> the bug down. SY> -- SY> |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| SY> | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | SY> | It's a way of life. | SY> |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---| -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/