> dired gets some hate, I think because it creates a lot of buffers and they tend to stick around, but it's never bothered me. There's a variable in recent ver

> dired gets some hate, I think because it creates a lot of buffers and they tend to stick around, but it's never bothered me. There's a variable in recent versions of emacs that deals with that dired-kill-when-opening-new-dired-buffer I'm glad it's a switch, though. I set it to true, but I can see someone being used to the dired command to go to a specific directory, and then manage things with dired-insert-subdir.