Function: dired-other-frame

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

Signature

(dired-other-frame DIRNAME &optional SWITCHES)

Documentation

"Edit" directory DIRNAME. Like dired but make a new frame.

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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-5-map "d" 'dired-other-frame)
;;;###autoload
(defun dired-other-frame (dirname &optional switches)
  "\"Edit\" directory DIRNAME.  Like `dired' but make a new frame."
  (interactive (dired-read-dir-and-switches "in other frame "))
  (switch-to-buffer-other-frame (dired-noselect dirname switches)))