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Arcuru on Jan 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Z – Jump around

In most shells, you can just add those entries as shell completions to `cd` or `z`.

In fish for example, it's as easy as the following (using zoxide query)

    complete -c z -f -k -a "(zoxide query -l)"

latexr on Jan 17, 2024 [–]

I don’t just want specific directories to autocomplete. Whatever I navigate to is likely something I never even opened but was generated by a script and I now want to do manual changes to the contents. This approach makes for me the rare case as usable as the common one.

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