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Hm. Is it just me, or does it feel like describing a path with plain ol' tab completion isn't really bothersome, impractical or "a lot of keystrokes"? And since when weren't aliases good enough? I definitely see the use for this under Windows, but in a real nix shell? -shrug-

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Tab completion is very painful on some of the Unix systems that I have access to. NFS can randomly hang making tab completion very unresponsive. I would have thought that, these days, this shouldn't happen. But I've experienced crapness over NFS at more than one place where I have no control over the network. As I result, I have had to resort to using fancy tools like the one posted.

I guess it all depends on the usage you make of the command line. I work with a lot of data in directories that do not have nice names (spaces, long sequences of numbers...), so autojump is very useful for me.

In any case I'd recommend to try it for a bit, I've seen quite a lot of people changing their minds after using it for a couple days. Sure, you can emulate the functionality with aliases and so on, but this is fully automatic, and after a few days, you might very well be thinking, "why didn't I use this all along?" :)

What's bothersome and impractical about describing a path with tab completion under Windows?

So, does it work on Windows, or is there a version for Windows?

It works on Cygwin.

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