In Dired, I'm able to drill down folders with the key i, but how can I unfold a folder that was once opened, that is, go to its parent folder?
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What did you try?
C-h m tells you about the current mode for an Emacs buffer. In Dired it lists the key bindings, including ^, which takes you to the parent directory, in Dired.
C-h k ^ tells you:
^runs the commanddired-up-directory(found indired-mode-map), which is an interactive compiled Lisp function indired.el.It is bound to
^,<menu-bar> <subdir> <up>.
(dired-up-directory &optional OTHER-WINDOW)Run Dired on parent directory of current directory.
Find the parent directory either in this buffer or another buffer. Creates a buffer if necessary. If
OTHER-WINDOW(the optional prefix arg), display the parent directory in another window.
If you use Dired+ then ^ is this instead:
^runs the commanddiredp-up-directory(found indired-mode-map), which is an interactive compiled Lisp function indired+.el.It is bound to
^,menu-bar subdir navigate up.
(diredp-up-directory &optional OTHER-WINDOW)Run Dired on parent directory of current directory.
Find the parent directory either in this buffer or another buffer. Creates a buffer if necessary.
With a prefix arg, Dired the parent directory in another window.
On MS Windows, if you are already at the root directory, invoke
diredp-w32-drivesto visit a navigable list of Windows drives.
But since you mention i and drilling down in the sense of showing a subdirectory listing, maybe you are asking (also?) how to get back to the parent directory listing from a subdirectory listing. ^ also does that.
With Dired+, you can alternatively use i again, with the cursor on a file in the subdir listing or on the subdir header line (but not with the cursor on a subdir in the subdir listing - in that case that subdir is itself listed).
In other words, i toggles back and forth between parent and child directory.
In vanilla Dired (not Dired+), i does not toggle this way. You need to use ^ to go to the parent listing.
You can also show/hide a subdir listing using $. And you can remove all listings other than the main one with C-x C-v.