A buffer per directory is just the right thing for dired to do, for the same kind of reason that it is right that git has a staging area. Your problem is that t

A buffer per directory is just the right thing for dired to do, for the same kind of reason that it is right that git has a staging area. Your problem is that this behaviour causes friction with how you prefer to manage buffers. Some suggestions: - With the regular buffer list, if you keep typing letters, the view will restrict to buffers containing that string - All the usual selection narrowing options, e.g. Helm, work here - You can rebind 'q' to 'kill-buffer-and-its-windows - A lot of people like ibuffer, which allows you to group kinds of buffer in its buffer list, e.g. all dired buffers