Re: eshell and quick cd

[henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de>]

On Sa, Mär 28 2009, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> you have a very nice file called esh-toggle.el, you will find here:
>
> ftp://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/emacs/
>
> It should be integrated in emacs, this file is in the git repo of eshell
> also but i can't find back url.
>
> henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
>
>> I recently encountered `wcd' [1], which provides a way to quickly change
>> directories. For example if I am in ~/a/b and want to cd to ~/c/def a
>> `wcd def' would suffice if def is a unique directory name.
>> Since only `cd' is allowed to change directories you have to write a
>> function in your ~/.zshrc (in my case) like that:
>>
>> function wcd
>> {
>>   $HOME/bin/wcd.exe $*
>> . $HOME/bin/wcd.go
>> }
>>
>> Is there already a builtin function of eshell which does the same? Or,
>> if not, how can I tell eshell to use wcd?
>>
>> henry
>>
>> ___
>>
>> [1] http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
>>

esh-toogle is very handy, thanks.

But if I want to stay on the eshell command-line I still would like
eshell to use the above mentioned function. How can it be implemented in
eshell?

henry