Eshell CD tricks

on emacs and eshell

Eshell’s built in command cd has a pretty nice feature, which is keeping track of the directories visited and being able to jump to a directory matching the directory stack history.

You can see the directory stack via $ cd = and then either choose a number or directory to jump to (eg cd =foo or cd -3) both will jump to the foo directory

eg:

$ cd =
0: /Users/gopar
1: /Users/gopar/.emacs.d
2: /Users/gopar/projs
3: /Users/gopar/.emacs.d/org/work
5: /Users/gopar
6: /Users/gopar/.emacs.d/org
7: /Users/gopar/foo
$ cd =foo # cd's into directory foo
$ cd -7 # also cd's into foo

Another cool thing that it has is that you don’t have to type cd path/dir but simply path/dir in the prompt to cd into that directory. This works by checking if the input is a path, if not then fallback to using it as a command.

Eshells CD command is a pretty simple easy convinient tool :)