At long last it is now time to ask - how do you get Emacs to open a file in the current window?

• current-window-only

  7 17 4.5 Emacs Lisp

  Open things only in the current window. No other windows, no splits.

I just published this package, you can give it a try https://github.com/frostyx/current-window-only Or just copy some of its code to your config.

• helpful

  34 1,063 5.9 Emacs Lisp

  A better Emacs *help* buffer

To find out what a key does, you can use the describe-key command, then press, for example, C-c C-o. I would highly recommend installing the helpful package, to get the even more useful helpful-key command. Then decide how you would like to modify or rebind the command that's bound there, because keybindings are generally not bound globally. In your case, I might rebind C-c C-o to one of the ffap commands. Further, emacs generally decides how a buffer is displayed based on it's filename or major mode. You can customize this through the display-buffer-alist: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/The-Zen-of-Buffer-Display.html

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