Feature Request: Go to next best match?

[peey]

Let's say z foo lands you in a directory a-foo but you wanted to go to b-foo, would it be useful to implement a feature z -n which could mean "go to the next best match"?

And then whenever z -n is used, it could also "teach" z to swap the rankings of the previous match with this match.

Would it be useful to have or am I using z wrong?

[rupa]

yeah i'm not interested in implementing something like this. it makes you think too much imo. knowing that the match i want is the second one is too much brain, and then what if it becomes the 3rd.

z works best with the idea that one tends tp distinguish similar but different file paths in the mind already with a bit of shorthand ... if you use ~/Documents/foo, ~/Desktop/foo, ~/Pictures/foo all of the time, you're maybe already thinking doc foo des foo pic foo ...

along the same lines it was a very conscious decision not to have results in a list, that you could pick from.

[peey]

I agree with what you said, but my use case is different. If I use all of ~/Documents/foo, ~/Desktop/foo, ~/Pictures/foo very frequently, then it's useful to to think like doc foo, des foo, and pic foo

But what happened with me was I had recently created all of ~/Documents/foo, ~/Desktop/foo, ~/Pictures/foo but I am only concerned with ~/Desktop/foo from now on and not the others

So when I did z foo I wanted to land in ~/Desktop/foo but landed in ~/Documents/foo instead.

So I wanted to do something like z -n once to "teach" z to always go to ~/Dekstop/foo(which might be one of the next results) and not to the current result

But I think I am not using this correctly. Would you say that in this situation I should first cd around in the newly created directories and let z learn before I start using it?

[ericbn]

But what happened with me was I had recently created all of ~/Documents/foo, ~/Desktop/foo, ~/Pictures/foo but I am only concerned with ~/Desktop/foo from now on and not the others

@peey, this is when the -x option comes to play. You do z -x foo until you land at ~/Desktop/foo.

[peey]

That's a good solution. Thanks @ericbn