tutu

Shell bookmarks and navigation

Tutu is a Z-shell bookmark manager. By integrating with tab completion, tutu makes it quick and easy to select any bookmarked directory and navigate to it.

Tutu provides three commands:

• tu - navigates to a bookmark using cd.
• tutu - navigates to a bookmark using pushd
• untu - wraps popd, sugar for returning after using tutu.

Installation

1. Clone this repo
2. Run these commands:

  make install
  source load_tutu
  echo '[ -r "$HOME/.tutu/load_tutu" ] && source ~/.tutu/load_tutu' >> $HOME/.zshrc

Managing the target list

Add targets by editing ~/.tutu/targets. Each line in the file is composed of a bookmark name and a path.

It is important to keep a blank line at the end of the targets file.

Example:

  my-bin ~/bin
  proj   ~/Documents/Projects
  tutu   ~/Documents/Projects/tutu

Using the tutu commands

All tutu commands feature tab completion. You can access a list of matching targets by using tab completion.

Navigate to a directory using cd

To navigate to a directory, use the tu command: tu <target name>

For example, based on the targets file above, tu my-bin is equivalent to cd ~/bin.

Navigate to a directory using pushd

To navigate to a directory using the directory stack, use the tutu command: tutu <target name>.

For example, based on the targets file above, tu my-bin is equivalent to push ~/bin.

Return to the previous directory in the stack with popd

The untu command is an alias for popd. It is purely syntactic sugar and does not add any additonal capabilities.

Acknowledgements

While tutu is entirely my own work, much of the project layout was mercilessly cribbed from what is used in the excellent smartcd by Dave Olszewski. Any leftover cruft from my outright banditry is entirely on me.