So I was in Mountain View last week, helping the Mozilla Labs team re-architect Bespin. Toward the end of the week, as we were doing some collaborative coding, I opened a terminal and typed j bespin to bring me straight to my checkout of the Bespin source — and Kevin and Joe simultaneously went, “Wait, what’d you just do?” I realized I’d been using autojump — the cd substitute that guesses what you mean — for over a year, and hadn’t yet pimped it to anyone. Use it! You’ll wonder where it’s been all your life.
Oct7
at 2:30 pm (Quote ↓)
awesome, I’ve been using aliases to give me quick commands to jump to directories but this is way better
at 2:58 pm (Quote ↓)
Yea, truly awesome! Who want’s to use a pesky fast built-in like CDPATH when you could startup python every time you change directories.
Painfully obvious indeed.
at 1:34 am (Quote ↓)
great! thanks for sharing :)
at 6:29 am (Quote ↓)
People who understand the difference between the weak CDPATH and autojump and want the full power of autojump :)
at 7:23 am (Quote ↓)
I’ve been using this for a week now based on your recommendation. Getting a lot of use out of it, and although its use is not yet completely automatic, I can already feel it saving me time.
The one thing I don’t like is its use of [underscore-underscore] - as I happen to have some frequently used directories containing [underscore-underscore] at the start of their name (carried over from windows, where they sorted nicely at the top), and so I keep trying to jump to them based on that characteristic, and failing miserably.