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Z – Jump around

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Resurfaced independently across 4 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2011–2024
peak thread · 75 comments
139 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-01-15
139 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

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I tried this and a handful of alternatives a while back, but would often get frustrated because they’d jump to something different than what I intended or were missing some directory I wanted. Eventually I came up with an alternative using fd¹ and fzf². I have a variant of this in my .zshrc: function n { cd "$(fd . "${HOME}" --type d --color never | fzf --select-1 --query "${*}")" ls } Call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy…

latexr·139-point thread·

I use fasd, which is just like z, v, autojump, only much more powerful: https://github.com/clvv/fasd

That's a useful feature. I've recently switched to fish shell and it has similar fuzzy autocomplete which turns out to be more useful that I thought. http://fishshell.com - Fish Shell http://fishshell.com/assets/img/screenshots/autosuggestion.p... - Unintrusive autocomplete, thanks to coloring.

athenot·91-point thread·

I like it! Always wondered why some of the built in commands don't evolve in more holistic ways, like 'cd to wherever I usually go after here'

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
337

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
157

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2011-11-20Z - jump around the directories in the command linetambourine_man20
2012-02-22Z - Switch directories very quickly (bash/zsh)agscala20
2012-09-01Z - Jump to directories that you actually use.First breakoutsnihalani10132
2015-12-07Z: Super fast terminal navigationpranav721
2015-12-12Z – quickly cd to 'frecent' directoriesmrswag9149
2024-01-15Z – Jump aroundBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnlovestaco13975