Function: dired-mouse-find-file-other-window

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

Signature

(dired-mouse-find-file-other-window EVENT)

Documentation

In Dired, visit the file or directory name you click on 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-mouse-find-file-other-window (event)
  "In Dired, visit the file or directory name you click on 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 "e" dired-mode)
  (dired-mouse-find-file event 'find-file-other-window 'dired-other-window))