CDPATH replacements

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after reading this post I figured I might as well bite the bullet and improve on my CDPATH-related setup, especially because it does not work with Emacs. so i looked around for autojump-related alternatives that do.

What I use now

I currently have this in my .shenv (sourced by .bashrc):

export CDPATH=".:~:~/src:~/dist:~/wikis:~/go/src:~/src/tor"

This allows me to quickly jump into projects from my home dir, or the "source code" (~/src), "work" (src/tor), or wiki checkouts (~/wikis) directories. It works well from the shell, but unfortunately it's very static: if I want a new directory, I need to edit my config file, restart shells, etc. It also doesn't work from my text editor.

Shell jumpers

Those are commandline tools that can be used from a shell, generally with built-in shell integration so that a shell alias will find the right directory magically, usually by keeping track of the directories visited with cd.

Some of those may or may not have integration in Emacs.

autojump

• home page
• not in emacs, but works in eshell
• this might work though

fasd

• home page
• upstream packaged in Debian
• emacs extensions, not in Debian:
  • helm integration (not in melpa?)
  • more direct

z

• home page
• ungooglable
• not in Debian
• helm integration
• eshell integration

fzf

• home page
• the original "fuzzer". uses find by default, so no notion of frequency.
• emacs integration
• similar projects
• rust implementation

Emacs plugins not integrated with the shell

Those projects can be used to track files inside a project or find files around directories, but do not offer the equivalent functionality in the shell.

projectile

• home page
• supports ido, ivy, or helm.

elpy

• home page
• elpy has a notion of projects, so, by default, will find files in the current "project" with C-c C-f which is useful

bookmarks.el

• built-in
• home page
• "Bookmarks record locations so you can return to them later"

recentf

• built-in
• home page
• "builds a list of recently opened files. This list is is automatically saved across sessions on exiting Emacs - you can then access this list through a command or the menu"

references

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LocateFilesAnywhere

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