tarrasch / zsh-bd

Jump back to a specific directory, without doing `cd ../../..`

zsh-bd

Quickly go back to a specific parent directory instead of typing cd ../../.. redundantly.

Update August 2017: While there have not been commits lately, it's still fully functional.

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This is a reimplementation of vigneshwaranr/bd that utilizes the power of the zsh shell.

Install

All you need to do is to source bd.zsh. Here's the manual installation

mkdir -p $HOME/.zsh/plugins/bd
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tarrasch/zsh-bd/master/bd.zsh > $HOME/.zsh/plugins/bd/bd.zsh
print -- "\n# zsh-bd\n. \$HOME/.zsh/plugins/bd/bd.zsh" >> $HOME/.zshrc

Restart your shell (or run zsh)

Antigen

If you prefer antigen over manual installation

antigen-bundle Tarrasch/zsh-bd

Usage

$ mkdir -p a/b/c/d
$ cd a/b/c/d
$ bd b
$ ls
c
$ cd c/d
$ bd 2
$ ls
c

Here's an animation also showing the completion functionality

Thanks

Thanks to @vigneshwaranr for inspiring me to do a zsh version.

Thanks to @voria for many useful patches! (see commit log)

zsh-bd's Issues

Add fuzzy support

Would be nice if I could do this:

~/Desktop
❯ mkdir -p a/b/c/d

~/Desktop
❯ cd a/b/c/d

~/Desktop/a/b/c/d
❯ bd desk
bd: Error: No parent directory named 'desk'

~/Desktop/a/b/c/d
❯

Basically type few characters of the name instead of the entire name every time. In this case desk should match Desktop case insensitive.

Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

Following the manual install steps, I'm getting the following error when I run zsh:
> zsh /usr/home/bridger/.zsh/plugins/bd/bd.zsh: 12: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

I'm not sure what's wrong with the syntax here. Could you advise? I've tried with both 5.0.5 and 5.0.7.
Thanks in advance for your help.

zsh-bd for prezto

It would be very nice to port this as a module/plugin for prezto or to oh-my-zsh

How to install as oh-my-zsh plugin?

Nice plugin, wondering if it can be installed with oh-my-zsh? Running oh-my-zsh and installed this plugin as explained in the readme without a hitch, but for consistency reasons it would be nice if it played nicely with oh-my-zsh.

Error when using antigen

When bundling zsh-bd with antigen bundle Tarrasch/zsh-bd, the following error occurs:

/home/username/.antigen/repos/https-COLON--SLASH--SLASH-github.com-SLASH-Tarrasch-SLASH-zsh-bd.git//bd.plugin.zsh:25: condition expected: $1

zsh version 5.2

Feature request: bd with no arguments should move up one directory

I think it would be nice if bd simply corresponds to doing cd .. or bd 1

Feature request: support case-insensitive directory match

This is supported by https://github.com/vigneshwaranr/bd with an argument in its alias: "To enable case-insensitive directory name matching, use -si instead of -s in the alias.". Of course, one could enable case-insensitive tab-completion in general and use the zsh-bd tab-completion for this, but one might not want it enabled everywhere.

bd into cwd is meaningless

i dont think bd should accept current dir as an argument, though this sounds not bad, but sometimes confused me. for example, when i am in:

~/bin/foobar/bin

and enter:

bd bin

i meant go to

~/bin

because that is the first matching parent dir, but bd just let me go to cwd (means nothing happened)

so does the completion, shouldn't show the cwd entry

Feature request: add support for folder color in tab-completion

It would be great to have folders colored accordingly in tab-completion when zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ... is defined in .zshrc, to have the consist look-and-feel with ZSH.

Feature request: match incomplete string at beginning of line

It seems that https://github.com/vigneshwaranr/bd supports this: "You can simply type bd like bd s or bd si", whereas with this, it seems we have to tab-complete.