[Insight-developers] here is a programming tools that may find useful...

[Arnaud GELAS]

Hi all,

I recently start using a tool called autojump, which some of you may 
find useful.

Taken from the site:*
*http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump*

"Autojump: a cd command that learns*

One of the most used shell commands is "cd". A quick survey among my 
friends revealed that between 10 and 20% of all commands they type are 
actually cd commands! Unfortunately, jumping from one part of your 
system to another with cd requires to enter almost the full path, which 
isn't very practical and requires a lot of keystrokes.

*autojump* is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by 
maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the 
command line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the 
database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes 
usable. Autojump will listen and rank your 'cd' commands by frequency. 
Once your database is reasonably complete, you can "jump" to a commonly 
"cd"ed directory by typing:

*j* dirspec

where dirspec is a few characters of the directory you want to jump to. 
It will jump to the most used directory whose name matches the pattern 
given in dirspec.

Autojump supports tab-completion. Try it! Autojump should be compatible 
with Bash 4 and zsh."

After spending few hours to one day navigating in my system using 
conventional "cd", autojump has learnt all the path where I use to go 
and it becomes really easy to move from one directory to another one by 
using "j".

Cheers,
Arnaud




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