Manually declare a directory

[tortolo]

This is a feature that may be nice for users: a way to tell that this directory is to be considered as frequently used.

Typical use case: I create a directory for a project I shall work on for the next few weeks. Right now, it is not yet often used, but it will be, and having it at a high position in autojump's list would save me time for the beginning.

[joelthelion]

Bonjour Tanguy,

There are two ways to achieve this currently:

1. Keep pressing on the "enter" key for a few seconds.
2. Manually edit the autojump.txt file (usually in ~/.local/share)

Does this meet your needs? If not, I'd be curious about what you would like exactly and how you would implement it. Maybe a simple bit of documentation is the solution?

[tortolo]

Joel Schaerer, 2012-01-10 12:27-0800:

There are two ways to achieve this currently:

1. Keep pressing on the "enter" key for a few seconds.

Yes, that is right. I was overthinking it, so I missed the most obvious
solution! Please close that issue. :-)

Tanguy

[saltcod]

For anyone else having issues here:

On MacOS, my autojump.txt file is in ~/Library/autojump/autojump.txt

When autojump brings me to the wrong directory, I'll delete entries in autojump.txt and retrain it.

ie: I try and jump to a directory called matter, but it always brought me to a different news-matters directory. To fix this, I just delete all of the lines in autojump.txt for news-matters.

I've also added an entry in .aliases to make this super quick:
alias jfix="mate ~/Library/autojump/autojump.txt"

Hope this helps someone else!