Ability to cd directly to one-off directories

[fryit5150]

Can you add a way to go directly to a one-off directory? Say if I need to a directory in /usr/share it's quite clumsy to have to type `, ^N, usr, share, ... rather than e.g. :cd <ctrl+shift+v> in other file managers.

[N-R-K]

It should be possible to do this quite easily with a plugin. There's already a couple cd related plugin you can take a look at for reference.

[fryit5150]

It's quite basic functionality, so it would be great not needing to install and setup a plugin for it on all my computers/new installs in VMs.

[0xACE]

It's quite basic functionality, so it would be great not needing to install and setup a plugin for it on all my computers/new installs in VMs.

It serves no purpose, you can literally hit these keys:

!mkdir -p foo/bar/baz<ENTER><CTRL-D>

for a better and more robust functionality...

update: i didnt read the topic and assumed the request was to create sub folders... my bad...

[fryit5150]

It's quite basic functionality, so it would be great not needing to install and setup a plugin for it on all my computers/new installs in VMs.

It serves no purpose, you can literally hit these keys:

!mkdir -p foo/bar/baz<ENTER><CTRL-D>

for a better and more robust functionality...

You are right. Running mkdir to browse a directory makes no sense at all.

[N-R-K]

Here's a plugin to do what you want:

#!/bin/sh

printf "enter path to cd: "
read -r to
[ -n "$to" ] && printf "0c%s" "${to}" > "$NNN_PIPE"

it would be great not needing to install and setup a plugin for it on all my computers/new installs in VMs

Whether to include this feature in nnn natively or not is @jarun's call. I don't really have any preference here one way or other.

[0xACE]

Sorry i didn't fully read the topic.

This is the way it was implemented on my branch: when in filter mode: / will cd into a directory if the highlighted line is a directory otherwise it will clear the filter + show all files and highlight the matched item, essentially allowing you to paste a path to go to the desired location.

I just gave it a try, it still works after 3 years, but I guess it doesnt work while nnn is running within tmux...

[jarun]

We can't add a new keybind for changing directories.
Plugins are one of the best features of nnn and very simple to migrate and use.

However, in this case, did you try to add the following in your ~/.bashrc:

NNN_PLUG='c:!read -r to && [ -n "$to" ] && printf "0c%s" "${to}" > "$NNN_PIPE"*'

and press Alt-C and paste the destination path?

[jarun]

Fixed at 9259170.