Function: dired-find-file-other-window

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

Signature

(dired-find-file-other-window)

Documentation

In Dired, visit this file or directory in another window.

If this command needs to split the current window, it by default obeys the user options split-height-threshold and split-width-threshold, when it decides whether to split the window horizontally or vertically.

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Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
(defun dired-find-file-other-window ()
  "In Dired, visit this file or directory in another window.
If this command needs to split the current window, it by default obeys
the user options `split-height-threshold' and `split-width-threshold',
when it decides whether to split the window horizontally or vertically."
  (interactive nil dired-mode)
  (dired--find-file #'find-file-other-window (dired-get-file-for-visit)))