I know this thread is already filled with alternative workflows for this particular task, but this is one of the things I love the most about elvish. With ctrl-l you can bring up an fzf-like ‘location’ menu that contains the directories you’ve been to, sorted by score (similar to firefox’s frecency, which I love). The best part is that it’s essentially ‘zero-conf’, since you just have to use the shell to build the results, and in my experience it works very well.
Some will say that this is outside the scope of a shell, but it’s hard to reach this level of integration by combining external tools.
Elvish is my favorite shell at the moment, and its surprisingly efficient directory navigation is only one of the reasons. A weighted-directory-history is kept automatically by the shell, so over time, your most-used directories float to the top, and are easily accessible in location mode. In this sense it’s not too different from AutoJump, but because it’s visual, you can see your selection live as you type. These days, it doesn’t take more than Alt-L (I have remapped from the default Ctrl-L that @nomto mentions) and a couple of keystrokes to select the directory I want. It works great.
I know this thread is already filled with alternative workflows for this particular task, but this is one of the things I love the most about elvish. With ctrl-l you can bring up an fzf-like ‘location’ menu that contains the directories you’ve been to, sorted by score (similar to firefox’s frecency, which I love). The best part is that it’s essentially ‘zero-conf’, since you just have to use the shell to build the results, and in my experience it works very well.
Some will say that this is outside the scope of a shell, but it’s hard to reach this level of integration by combining external tools.
Elvish is my favorite shell at the moment, and its surprisingly efficient directory navigation is only one of the reasons. A weighted-directory-history is kept automatically by the shell, so over time, your most-used directories float to the top, and are easily accessible in location mode. In this sense it’s not too different from AutoJump, but because it’s visual, you can see your selection live as you type. These days, it doesn’t take more than Alt-L (I have remapped from the default Ctrl-L that @nomto mentions) and a couple of keystrokes to select the directory I want. It works great.