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also, have you seen this fzf "trick"?

I am sorry for spamming this comment, but I wanted to share it with all the fzf users because I found it so game-changing:

I use "ESC-c" a lot. It calls fzf and fd, you type a part of your directory name, hit enter, and it cd's to that directory.

    export FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND='fd --type directory'

That's in my .zshenv.

It's incredibly useful if you have multi-layered project directories. Like ~/Projects/Terraform/Cool_Project - you'd hit esc-c, type cool, hit enter and you're in the place you wanted to be.

I use a similar trick but with aliases.

If I want to cd to let's say "~/work/john/some-project" I just type 'fcd' on the console and then "w j s" and "ENTER". Most of the times it work as expected and is really fast.

This is a mode provided by a helper that I wrote for fzf to make it easier to use and more useful. In essence it's just a shell script with a bunch of fzf tricks pre-configured.

https://github.com/danisztls/fzfx/

Very cool! I use zoxide as a alias for cd to do this. But it only really works if you have cded using the full path in the past. But usually I have.

In the same vein I use autojump, and combined with ranger using the ranger-autojump plugin I can CD in any folder I have previously visited.

Oh, I've not seen ranger before. Looks pretty useful.

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