Add jump plugin, which allows you to easily jump around the file system

[jeroenjanssens]

Easily jump around the file system by manually adding marks.
marks are stored as symbolic links in the directory $MARKPATH (default $HOME/.marks)

This functionality complements autojump, which keeps a database of the most-common used directories.

Usage:

jump FOO: jump to a mark named FOO
mark FOO: create a mark named FOO
unmark FOO: delete a mark
marks: lists all marks

[patcon]

👍

[treejamie]

This is great.

[DouweM]

👍

[manufaktor]

+1

[borian]

+1

[pattonjp]

+1

[DouweM]

marks isn't completely working for me (OS X 10.8.3, using zsh):

% cd ~/Dropbox/
% mark dropbox
% marks
dropboxt-> /Users/douwemaan/Dropbox

The t after dropbox is supposed to be a tab, but for some reason \t from the script is shown literally.

[DouweM]

Suggestion: Add an autocomplete script that lists the marks when hitting jump <TAB>, like cd <TAB> does.

[ghost]

👍

[shadabahmed]

👍

[unr]

+1

[ins429]

+1

[Cinamonas]

👍

[mkrisher]

👍

[jqtrde]

👍

[theckman]

👍

I'd love to see this merged in to OMZ.

[bjori]

@DouweM add something like this into your .bashrc

function _jump() {
    local keys word

    word=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
    keys=$(ls -l $MARKPATH | sed 's/  / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9 | grep "^$word")

    if [ ${#keys[*]} -gt 0 ]; then
        COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "${keys[@]}" $word))
    fi

    return 0
}

complete -F _jump jump

haha. and now I realize this is a pull request for oh-my-zsh :)

[DouweM]

@bjori Thanks, but yeah, this is a PR for an oh-my-zsh plugin, which is why I'm suggesting the autocomplete feature be added to the jump plugin this PR is proposing.

[pielgrzym]

👍

How about adding a simple completion function:

_jump_comp() {
    reply=($(ls $MARKPATH))
}
compctl -K _jump_comp jump

or using expansion (this one is better since it includes only symlinks):

_jump_comp() {
    reply=($MARKPATH/*(@:t))
}
compctl -K _jump_comp jump

Also, isn't function keyword somewhat POSIX incompatible?

EDIT:

On OSX I've rewritten the marks() function this way:

autoload colors
marks() {
         for link in $MARKPATH/*(@); do
                 echo "$fg[cyan] ${link:t} $reset_color -> $fg[blue] $(readlink $link) $reset_color"
         done
}

This way it colors the output. No date display though - it seems problematic ;)

EDIT2:

Mark display function using tab alignment:

autoload colors
marks() {
         for link in $MARKPATH/*(@); do
                local markname="$fg[cyan]${link:t}$reset_color"
                local markpath="$fg[blue]$(readlink $link)$reset_color"
                printf "%s\t" $markname
                printf "-> %s \t\n" $markpath
         done
}

😆

[pielgrzym]

Also - I would make mark behave differently when no args supplied (with no args it would list marks, with an arg it would add new mark):

mark() { 
        if (( $# == 0 )); then
                marks
        else
                mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s $(pwd) $MARKPATH/$1
        fi
}
alias m=mark

[javonharper]

👍

[525c1e21-bd67-4735-ac99-b4b0e5262290]

+1

[monokrome]

Won't this break with directory names which have spaces? I think that quoting your directory names is needed to solve this.

[sammcj]

Doesn't seem to work so well on OSX w/ ZSH:

[sammcj:...c/Music/Sams Music/Music 19]$ mark music
ln: /Users/sammcj/.marks/music: No such file or directory

Pretty sure this is because it doesn't seem to play nice with spaces.

[pielgrzym]

@sammcj - definately this is the reason. Qouting every path in mark, unmark helps (quoting $MARKPATH/$1 enables spaces in marks' names). Don't want to copy paste stuff again, but here is my version (customized to automatically add all projects dirs to jumplist) with fixed spaces issue: https://github.com/pielgrzym/zshrc/blob/marks/zsh.d/marks.zsh

[pielgrzym]

Also, check this out:

_mark_expansion() {
        setopt extendedglob
        autoload -U modify-current-argument
        modify-current-argument '$(readlink "$MARKPATH/$ARG")'
}
zle -N _mark_expansion
bindkey "^g" _mark_expansion

This code creates a zle widget to replace markname with full mark path, like this:
# cp /tmp/file mymark<C-g>
will become:
# cp /tmp/file /absolute/path/to/my/mark

[monokrome]

I have already provided a pull request on the original repository in order to solve the issue with spaces, semicolons, etc in directory names.

jeroenjanssens#1

Please do not incorporate readlink in this. It is unnecessary, and if someone had actually made a bookmark inside of a symlinked directory - it is most likely intentional and not hurting anyone to retain that data. Reading the link does not add any value, but potentially removes value from this feature.

If someone has a good reason to use readlink then great - they can create a function that wraps mark with one that performs a readlink. However, incorporating it in the original script is confusing and not useful in most cases.

[pielgrzym]

@monokrome no idea why you said 'readlink potentially removes value' from this feature. Readlink only resolves original directory for listing/substitution - it doesn't hurt to do this. Who would put an actual directory in ~/.marks anyway?

[pielgrzym]

@monokrome also - the sed magic in mark listing is apparently broken under OSX (the second sed doesn't add a tab) - your pull request didn't fix this.