Function: dired-other-window

dired-other-window is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dired.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-other-window DIRNAME &optional SWITCHES)

Documentation

"Edit" directory DIRNAME. Like dired but select in another window.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 26.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
;;;###autoload (define-key ctl-x-4-map "d" 'dired-other-window)
;;;###autoload
(defun dired-other-window (dirname &optional switches)
  "\"Edit\" directory DIRNAME.  Like `dired' but select in another window."
  (interactive (dired-read-dir-and-switches "in other window "))
  (switch-to-buffer-other-window (dired-noselect dirname switches)))