Re: eshell and quick cd

[thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com]

henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:

> 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?

May be write your function in a little script instead of writing it in
your .zshrc/.bashrc.
You can also easily create alias with eshell.

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A + Thierry Volpiatto
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