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Dired Extra Version 2 User's Manual

2.1 Optional Installation Dired Jump

In order to have dired-jump and dired-jump-other-window (see section 9. Miscellaneous Commands) work before dired and dired-x have been properly loaded the user should set-up an autoload for these functions. In your `.emacs' file put

;;; Autoload `dired-jump' and `dired-jump-other-window'. ;;; We autoload from FILE dired.el. This will then load dired-x.el ;;; and hence define `dired-jump' and `dired-jump-other-window'. (define-key global-map "\C-x\C-j" 'dired-jump) (define-key global-map "\C-x4\C-j" 'dired-jump-other-window) (autoload (quote dired-jump) "dired" "\ Jump to Dired buffer corresponding to current buffer. If in a file, Dired the current directory and move to file's line. If in Dired already, pop up a level and goto old directory's line. In case the proper Dired file line cannot be found, refresh the Dired buffer and try again." t nil) (autoload (quote dired-jump-other-window) "dired" "\ Like \\[dired-jump] (dired-jump) but in other window." t nil)

Note that in recent releases of GNU Emacs 19 (i.e., 19.25 or later) the file `../lisp/loaddefs.el' of the Emacs distribution already contains the proper auto-loading for dired-jump so you need only put

(define-key global-map "\C-x\C-j" 'dired-jump)

in your `.emacs' file in order to have C-x C-j work before dired is loaded.