How do I stop emacs dired mode from opening so many buffers?

Question

When I use dired mode to browse around and find a file I want to open in Emacs, dired opens a new buffer for each directory I visit when looking for the file ea

Answer 1

Use a (dired-find-alternate-file) instead of Enter

Also, see this page:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredReuseDirectoryBuffer