@Stu:
Interesting. I didn’t realize that was possible. I wish I knew a way to do that.

alias @@alt-down=pushd
alias @@alt-up=popd
- the @@ means the alias is run immediately

Keyboard shortcut aliases are one thing I really miss in unix terminals – is there any way of doing this ?

And I left a couple of vestigial comments in the code, which was derived from another function. Ignore the comments.

– ge

Here’s an example of what I’ve come up with. I show the CDPATH, try to pushd to FileMaker, which fails. Then I add the path to FileMaker to the CDPATH, after which, pushd now works.

$ printenv CDPATH
.:/Users/ge:/Users/ge/Desktop:/Users/ge/Documents:/Users/ge/Documents/Politics:/Library/WebServer/Documents:/Users/ge/Documents/ruby_and_rails/rails/projects
$ pushd FileMaker
-bash: pushd: FileMaker: No such file or directory
$ cdppush ~/Documents/tech/
$ pushd FileMaker
/Users/ge/Documents/tech/FileMaker
~/Documents/tech/FileMaker ~/Documents/tech/FileMaker ~/.profile.d

I created two functions in a file that I source from bash to implement these functions: The names could be better.

function cdppush()
{
set +o nounset
#echo “$# args”;
if [ "X${1}" = "X" ]; then
#echo “cding to home”;
builtin cd;
else
#echo “adding ${1} to CDPATH”;
CDPATH=”${*}”
CDPATH=$CDPATH:.
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Desktop
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Documents
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Documents/Politics
CDPATH=$CDPATH:/Library/WebServer/Documents
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Documents/ruby_and_rails/rails/projects
export CDPATH
echo “added ${1} to CDPATH [$CDPATH]“;
fi
}

function cdpreset()
{
CDPATH=.
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Desktop
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Documents
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Documents/Politics
CDPATH=$CDPATH:/Library/WebServer/Documents
CDPATH=$CDPATH:$HOME/Documents/ruby_and_rails/rails/projects
export CDPATH
}

It can’t do pattern searches but it should be easy to remember to say ‘pushd Documents’ for example.


alias b='pushd +1'
alias f='pushd -0'

cd () {
if [ "$*" = "" ]; then
pushd $HOME >/dev/null
else
pushd "$*" >/dev/null
fi
}