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There are several Dired commands for visiting or examining the files listed in the Dired buffer. All of them apply to the current line's file; if that file is really a directory, these commands invoke Dired on that subdirectory (making a separate Dired buffer).
dired-find-file
). See Visiting.
dired-find-file-other-window
). The Dired buffer remains visible
in the first window. This is like using C-x 4 C-f to visit the
file. See Windows.
dired-display-file
).
dired-mouse-find-file-other-window
). This uses another window
to display the file, like the o command.
dired-view-file
). Viewing a file with view-file
is
like visiting it, but is slanted toward moving around in the file
conveniently and does not allow changing the file. See View File.
dired-up-directory
). This is more convenient than moving to
the parent directory's line and typing f there.