Good article. Rather than aliasing `cd ../.." etc. I've got this function in my setup:
up () {
local x=''
for i in $(seq ${1:-1})
do
x="$x../"
done
cd $x
}
This lets me do up 4 to go up 4 directories.
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I use Fish and have keybinds for previous and next directory, 99% of the time when going up in a directory it's to (one of) the previous directory/ies I was in
What I use to automatically extend stuff like ls .... to ls ../../../..
function expand-dots() {
local MATCH
if [[ $LBUFFER =~ '(^| )\.\.\.+' ]]; then
LBUFFER=$LBUFFER:fs%\.\.\.%../..%
fi
}
function expand-dots-then-expand-or-complete() {
zle expand-dots
zle expand-or-complete
}
function expand-dots-then-accept-line() {
zle expand-dots
zle accept-line
}
zle -N expand-dots
zle -N expand-dots-then-expand-or-complete
zle -N expand-dots-then-accept-line
bindkey '^I' expand-dots-then-expand-or-complete
bindkey '^M' expand-dots-then-accept-line
(for zsh)
Holy shit
Look into zoxide.
z direc
Will take you to the most used directory starting with "direc" eg "/home/me/random/directory"
I've tried things like that before but never got on with them. I found when I had many projects with similar directory structures it was easy to end up in the wrong place and took more thought to get to the right place than just cding
The dir's are the same names or similar? A few extra key strokes to get the fullname should be easier than cd'ing back and forth.
There's also z foo "space" "tab" as per docs to get interactive list for matches.
But, just a suggestion!
Great stuff! Didn't know about lf
I use that r function regularly to go to the git project root. But I call it gtop. I mostly use that and zoxide to get around.
Thanks for these tips.