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My surprising finding was that its easier to just hardcode abbreviations to directories. The most unimpressive solution technically and yet also the most effect

My surprising finding was that its easier to just hardcode abbreviations to directories. The most unimpressive solution technically and yet also the most effective. I have abbreviations for about 20 directories, which essentially combine "cd" and the directory path in one string, no spaces. It works because I probably spend about 50-80% of my time in those directories, it's not too much to remember, and nothing can be faster than a one-word command abbreviation to that exact directory.

dog321 3y ago
Same, i literally have an alias that is 'w', which takes me to my primary working dir. It's great.
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bee_rider 3y ago
Another option could be to have a tmux session open for each of your projects, although of course this wouldn’t survive reboots.
- mr_mitm 3y ago
  It does with the plugin tmux-resurrect. Not perfect, but good enough most of the time.
samuell 3y ago
Same here. I use "c.<bookmark-name>" so that I can hit "c." and tab twice to see all my available bookmarks. Then I created a little bash f function: bookmark <bookmark-name> ... that adds such an alias pointing to the current folder to my aliases file, and sources it. The source, if anybody is interested: bookmark() { if [[ ! $1 ]]; then echo "Please provide a bookmark name (will be prepended with 'c.'):"; read name; else name=$1; fi dir=$(pwd); echo "alias c.$name='c $dir'" >> ~/.bash_aliases_local source ~/.bash_aliases_local } Very efficient! The reason I use c. rather than cd. is partly because I use an alias "c" all the time instead of "cd", that does all of this: - cd into the folder - run ls -ltr to see my last modified files at the bottom near the prompt. - create an empty like with echo - run pwd to print out the current folder path. This was after I ran statistics on my bash history file and realized I constantly running ls -ltr and sometimes pwd in new folders.
- samuell 3y ago
  The source for my "c" bash function as well: c() { cd "$1"; ls -ltra --color=always | tail -n 25; echo; pwd; }
- samuell 3y ago
  What was my surprising finding in this, is that I don't need to think much about how I name the bookmarks either. I can just throw in new short-hand bookmarks for whatever I'm working at the moment. If I happen to override any previous aliases, that doesn't matter much if I already forgot about that one anyways. Another cool thing: You can check the end of your ~/.bash_aliases_local file to find out what are your most recent bookmarks, and in other words, what are the relevant folders you are using a lot right now. One can of course also clean up this list of bookmark-aliases from time to time, but I often don't even care about that.
shzhdbi09gv8ioi 3y ago
Me too, here's some of my most commonly used alias cdrs='cd ~/dev/rs` alias cdgo='cd ~/dev/go` alias cddev='cd ~/dev' alias cddl='cd ~/Downloads'
unfamiliar 3y ago
Zsh has a better builtin solution. hash -d x=/path/to/x Then you can cd to there with just ~x And use it in commands like ls ~x/whatever/
brushfoot 3y ago
On Windows, I used to use AutoHotkey hotstrings for that so that they'd be available in file dialogs and Explorer as well as the terminal. Example: ::$pmd::C:\my\directory For those unfamiliar with AutoHotkey, it has a global keyboard hook that watches for hotstrings like this and expands them to the text after the second pair of colons. "$" is a sigil I chose to use for all hotstrings since I didn't use a language that used it and it helped avoid collisions with text that wasn't meant to be a hotstring, "p" was my prefix for pathing hotstrings, and "md" was an abbreviation for the mnemonic I chose for this particular directory, "my directory." Then I realized z saves you the work of all that by learning which directories you use regularly and letting you switch to them with partial matching on its arguments: z my dir No more coming up with mnemonics and editing my hotstrings file when I started new projects; now z handles it. For the GUI (file dialogs etc.), my profile script now includes a command that copies the current directory to the clipboard. I'm happy with that workflow since I pretty much always have a terminal open anyway.
ametrau 3y ago
I do the exact same thing with bash aliases. cdd is for the desktop.
VTimofeenko 3y ago
I have been using slightly customized bookmarks.zsh[1]. Bookmark a directoey by `bookmark .` and jump there later by double-tapping @ symbol. Works well with completions and stores bookmarks in .cache [1]: https://github.com/VTimofeenko/monorepo-machine-config/blob/master/flake-modules/zsh/myPlugins/bookmarks.zsh https://github.com/VTimofeenko/monorepo-machine-config/blob/...

dog321 3y ago

Same, i literally have an alias that is 'w', which takes me to my primary working dir. It's great.

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bee_rider 3y ago

Another option could be to have a tmux session open for each of your projects, although of course this wouldn’t survive reboots.

mr_mitm 3y ago
It does with the plugin tmux-resurrect. Not perfect, but good enough most of the time.

samuell 3y ago

Same here. I use "c.<bookmark-name>" so that I can hit "c." and tab twice to see all my available bookmarks. Then I created a little bash f function: bookmark <bookmark-name> ... that adds such an alias pointing to the current folder to my aliases file, and sources it. The source, if anybody is interested: bookmark() { if [[ ! $1 ]]; then echo "Please provide a bookmark name (will be prepended with 'c.'):"; read name; else name=$1; fi dir=$(pwd); echo "alias c.$name='c $dir'" >> ~/.bash_aliases_local source ~/.bash_aliases_local } Very efficient! The reason I use c. rather than cd. is partly because I use an alias "c" all the time instead of "cd", that does all of this: - cd into the folder - run ls -ltr to see my last modified files at the bottom near the prompt. - create an empty like with echo - run pwd to print out the current folder path. This was after I ran statistics on my bash history file and realized I constantly running ls -ltr and sometimes pwd in new folders.

samuell 3y ago
The source for my "c" bash function as well: c() { cd "$1"; ls -ltra --color=always | tail -n 25; echo; pwd; }
samuell 3y ago
What was my surprising finding in this, is that I don't need to think much about how I name the bookmarks either. I can just throw in new short-hand bookmarks for whatever I'm working at the moment. If I happen to override any previous aliases, that doesn't matter much if I already forgot about that one anyways. Another cool thing: You can check the end of your ~/.bash_aliases_local file to find out what are your most recent bookmarks, and in other words, what are the relevant folders you are using a lot right now. One can of course also clean up this list of bookmark-aliases from time to time, but I often don't even care about that.

shzhdbi09gv8ioi 3y ago

Me too, here's some of my most commonly used alias cdrs='cd ~/dev/rs` alias cdgo='cd ~/dev/go` alias cddev='cd ~/dev' alias cddl='cd ~/Downloads'

unfamiliar 3y ago

Zsh has a better builtin solution. hash -d x=/path/to/x Then you can cd to there with just ~x And use it in commands like ls ~x/whatever/

brushfoot 3y ago

On Windows, I used to use AutoHotkey hotstrings for that so that they'd be available in file dialogs and Explorer as well as the terminal. Example: ::$pmd::C:\my\directory For those unfamiliar with AutoHotkey, it has a global keyboard hook that watches for hotstrings like this and expands them to the text after the second pair of colons. "$" is a sigil I chose to use for all hotstrings since I didn't use a language that used it and it helped avoid collisions with text that wasn't meant to be a hotstring, "p" was my prefix for pathing hotstrings, and "md" was an abbreviation for the mnemonic I chose for this particular directory, "my directory." Then I realized z saves you the work of all that by learning which directories you use regularly and letting you switch to them with partial matching on its arguments: z my dir No more coming up with mnemonics and editing my hotstrings file when I started new projects; now z handles it. For the GUI (file dialogs etc.), my profile script now includes a command that copies the current directory to the clipboard. I'm happy with that workflow since I pretty much always have a terminal open anyway.

ametrau 3y ago

I do the exact same thing with bash aliases. cdd is for the desktop.

VTimofeenko 3y ago

I have been using slightly customized bookmarks.zsh[1]. Bookmark a directoey by `bookmark .` and jump there later by double-tapping @ symbol. Works well with completions and stores bookmarks in .cache [1]: https://github.com/VTimofeenko/monorepo-machine-config/blob/master/flake-modules/zsh/myPlugins/bookmarks.zsh https://github.com/VTimofeenko/monorepo-machine-config/blob/...