I want to have two Emacs windows on the screen: one for Dired and one for code. But when I click on a file in the Dired buffer the file opens in the the same window, in place of the Dired buffer. Can I change this behaviour?
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Why are you clicking on things with a mouse? I thought you're using Emacs?
Move point to the line you're interested in and press o to open it in another window or C-o to open the file but stay on Dired buffer.
If you must do it with the mouse, use middle-click to do the same thing.
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`C-o` didn't work for me, but I think this was supposed to trigger `dired-display-file`. `o` is `dired-find-file-other-window`. – Felipe Cortez Aug 08 '22 at 01:15
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S-Return works for me in spacemacs if anyone is interested.
dired-find-file-other-window is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
`dired.el'.
It is bound to <S-return>, g O, <normal-state> <S-return>, <normal-state> g O,
<menu-bar> <immediate> <find-file-other-window>.
(dired-find-file-other-window)
For more information check the manuals.
In Dired, visit this file or directory in another window.
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