Z – quickly cd to 'frecent' directories (opens in new tab)

So I think the reverse is true? Autojump is abandoned and Z is alive?

https://github.com/sjl/z-fish

I used zsh for almost 3 years exclusively before moving over to Fish. Oh-my-fish doesn't leave me lacking for any features that Oh-my-zsh has, and it's easier for me to extend as well.

Anyways, yeah. Fish rules. The package manager that comes with oh-my-fish is nice, but you have options like 'fundle'. And being able to see what each function does/edit it out of the box with 'funced' is great.

This is a good cheat-sheet to start with fish and omf.[2] Followed by a setup that's pretty standard for zsh converts especially if you're on OS X[3]. Bobby's theme is good out of the box and git-friendly. Read the guide to see the out-of-the-box omf plugin functionality[4]. It really is that easy. Some iTermer's like Agnoster[5], and the github page has previews for dozens of themes.

-- Modifications that might be of interestif you're an autojump/z/j user [Skip to the citations 2-5 if you just want to try Fish out] -- Directory navigation/auto-complete/globbing is probably the #1 'issue' I've had with shells, and I'd imagine others as well because of the numerous 'j','z','autojump', etc solutions that are out there. My problem with all of those is that it uses heuristics rather than giving you a deterministic solution as to 'ok, you will end up here'.

After ~15 years I finally wrote my own solution extended fish with SQLite. After every cmd, it makes an atomic append to the directory history log table with: a timestamp, the working directory, the command invoked (naive), e.g. if you're already in /etc/httpd/ 'emacs foo.conf' will be the column entry, and the full-path command, e.g. 'emacs /etc/httpd/foo.conf'.

There are also 'bookmarks' I can set and view in another table.

And finally I have a dirh stack (using the cmd_history table with just a naive SELECT DISTINCT cwd FROM tbl GROUP BY cwd ORDER BY timestamp DESC limit 10 -- or something, it's been a while since I've looked at it) which is visually printed to show the most recent first, making different 'context switches' real easy in a deterministic fashion due to how fish renders it's auto-complete paging.

I invoke my command with ;<Tab> and it shows 3 columns -each with a prefix and an easily accessible home-row association char {a,s,d,f,e,h,j,k,i,l}[10]: my bookmarks, my dirh stack, and my most frequently visited dirs.

It sounds complicated but ;bs substitutes in 'cd ~/' much like a snippet-- so I can type ;bs[<key>s in my case expands to cd /home/andrew/]foo<Enter> and I'm in /home/andrew/foo/. This also works for expanding with other commands (not just cd) and written so your leader key can be anything[1]

It's way faster than cd ~/foo/ (~30% speed increase). With fish I can actually timestamp from when the command-prompt renders to when enter is hit, then compare the difference between the two. I suspect its because I'm so homerow oriented that the action of pivoting on my wrists to hit Left-shift then extending my middle-forefinger to hit ~.

The most convenient thing is I know for a fact where I'm going to be, because the fish-pager generates an overlay (something like this: http://www.screenage.de/blog/uploads/fish11.png ) with those 3 previous columns previously mentioned generated upon the ;<Tab> sequence, I can look at the table (if I need to, common directories are muscle memoried), complete my command, and the uninstrusive autocomplete disappears.

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[1](I just chose ; since no shell I've ever used, whether it was ksh on SunOS or scsh-guile, ever had a grammar where ; was a character that began an expression).

[2] http://ricostacruz.com/cheatsheets/fish-shell.html

[3] http://bleibinha.us/blog/2014/08/my-command-line-setup-with-...

[4] https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish

[5] https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/blob/master/docs/Th...

I found a somewhat better way to use CDPATH. I made the only thing in my CDPATH a special directory into which I placed symlinks, and all of the symlinks were prefixed with an underscore. So if I wanted to jump to one of these "bookmarks," I'd start with the underscore prefix; this reduced the likelihood of them aliasing subdirectories in $PWD. I wrote shell functions to automate adding and deleting links, which automatically enforced the underscore rule. I eventually got sick of even this system and stopped using it.

My final conclusion was that CDPATH is not useful. When I want quick access to a directory, I just make a symlink in $HOME. It's not that hard to type `cd ~/symlink`, and it always does what you expect.

For long dir paths that I cd to often, I sometimes define them as shorter shell env. vars. and add them to my .profile or equivalent startup file. Then I just do:

cd $short_dir_name_1 # or 2, etc.

  $ pwd
  /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex
  $ cd  usr usr/local
  $ pwd
  /usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex

  cd -4

"cdup" would jump to the specified ancestor directory of the CWD. So from /a/b/c/d/e, "cdup b" jumps to /a/b. This beats typing "cd ../../..", & it lends itself naturally to autocomplete. Writing this script is a piece of cake.

"cdto" is roughly the inverse of "cdup". It would jump to the specified descendant of the CWD, if one exists. If there is more than one possibility, it displays a choice (using `select`). So from /a, "cdto e" might jump to /a/b/c/d/e. This entails doing a recursive directory search, which can take a little bit of time, but it can save obnoxious typing in big, nasty directory trees. Writing this script is a bit trickier.

cdto also accepted a file as argument, in which case it jumped to the directory that contained that file.

Except of course - bash. It would be nice if people remembered that this isn't installed by default on lots of systems.

[1] https://github.com/wting/autojump/wiki [2] https://github.com/tkellogg/Jump-Location

I first heard it used to describe Firefox's location bar (Awesomebar).