dired-dwim-target uses most recently visited window instead of next window.

* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Operating on Files): Document behavior change.

* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-dwim-target-directories): New function.
(dired-dwim-target-directory, dired-dwim-target-defaults): Use it
to get the most recently used window instead of the next window (bug#35385).

* lisp/dired.el (dired-dwim-target): Doc fix.

* test/lisp/dired-tests.el: Remove unnecessary require and pacify
byte-compiler.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index ba874961329..bfcb7cf3255 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -810,6 +810,15 @@ command itself, not how many files are marked in total.
 *** A new face, 'dired-special', is used to highlight sockets, named
 pipes, block devices and character devices.
 
++++
+*** The new user option 'dired-create-destination-dirs' controls whether
+'dired-do-copy' and 'dired-rename-file' should create non-existent
+directories in the destination.
+
++++
+*** The non-nil value of 'dired-dwim-target' uses one of the most recently
+visited windows with a Dired buffer instead of the next window.
+
 ** Find-Dired
 
 *** New user option 'find-dired-refine-function'.
@@ -1367,13 +1376,6 @@ unescaping text.
 The maximum level is used by default; customize
 'font-lock-maximum-decoration' to tone down the decoration.
 
-** Dired
-
-+++
-*** The new user option 'dired-create-destination-dirs' controls whether
-'dired-do-copy' and 'dired-rename-file' should create non-existent
-directories in the destination.
-
 ** Help
 
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