README.md

gotopath

Synopsis

Go to path is a tool to facilitate navigation in the shell. It's autocomplete suggestions and it learns from himself where are your favorite paths.

Motivation

It's too boring to handle shell aliases manually.

How it's work?

A very light daemon manages shortcuts and communicates with client using unix sockets. A client submits path request using shortcut, relative or absolute path. If shortcut is requested and if exists, server return the main used absolute path. If a complete path is used, server just add a count for all subpaths.

Limitations

For now, it's work only with Zsh. Script has not been tested with other shells.

Installation

go get github.com/oszika/gotopath && $GOPATH/src/github.com/oszika/gotopath/install.sh

Zsh integration

Set in your .zshrc:

source ~/.config/gotopath/gotopath.zsh

Autocompletion

Set in your .zshrc:

fpath=(~/.config/gotopath/ $fpath)

All shortcuts appear but also all paths associated. For example:

$ g tat<TAB>
Shortcuts:
tata                  tata:=/tmp/tata       tata:=/tmp/titi/tata

Systemd integration

You can start gotopath service using systemctl:

$ systemctl --user start gotopath.service

Usage

Go to /etc/zsh using absolute path:

$ g /etc/zsh
Go to /etc/zsh

Go to /etc/zsh using shortcut:

$ g zsh
Go to /etc/zsh

Autocomplete z*:

$ g z<TAB>
Shortcuts:
zsh            zsh:=/etc/zsh
zprofile