GNU Emacs Manual
AB.12 Moving Over Subdirectories
When a Dired buffer lists subdirectories, you can use the page motion
commands C-x [ and C-x ] to move by entire directories
(see section T.4 Pages).
The following commands move across, up and down in the tree of
directories within one Dired buffer. They move to directory header
lines, which are the lines that give a directory's name, at the
beginning of the directory's contents.
- C-M-n
- Go to next subdirectory header line, regardless of level
(
dired-next-subdir).
- C-M-p
- Go to previous subdirectory header line, regardless of level
(
dired-prev-subdir).
- C-M-u
- Go up to the parent directory's header line (
dired-tree-up).
- C-M-d
- Go down in the directory tree, to the first subdirectory's header line
(
dired-tree-down).
- <
- Move up to the previous directory-file line (
dired-prev-dirline).
These lines are the ones that describe a directory as a file in its
parent directory.
- >
- Move down to the next directory-file line (
dired-prev-dirline).
