Question

I want files navigation via dired to be made in a separate frame but all files to be open in another frame. So how can I stick dired-mode buffers to a standalone-frame? Thanks.

I am interested in solution w/o using extra-packages.

Answer 1

Put something like this in your init file (.emacs):

    (defadvice dired (after dedicate activate)
      "Make this Dired window dedicated."
      (set-window-dedicated-p (selected-window) t))

That makes Dired’s window be dedicated, meaning that it cannot be reused for another buffer. You can do the same thing for other Dired commands — e.g. dired-other-window.