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Comment by arunix | Hacker News Reader

With zsh, I can do ~1, ~2 etc to move around a directory stack. Does fish have anything like that?

Fish does not include tons of syntactic shortcuts. We try to keep the syntax fairly free of opaque symbols.

You can use `prevd` and `nextd`, or you can use key bindings, like the default alt-left and alt-right bindings.

How do you go to the nth item of the directory stack? Even bash lets you do this:

    $ dirs -v
    0  ~/baz
    1  ~
    2  ~/bar
    3  ~/foo
    4  ~/spam

Then "pushd +3" will take you to ~/foo. This hardly seems "opaque".

That's included, just the `~2` shortcut thing isn't.

Which is included? I couldn't find anything like "dirs -v" in the fish manual. Without that, "pushd +N" isn't very useful.

There's a "dirs" command, which lists the directory stack, and a "cdh" command, which lists your directory history.

I made a plugin for that. It works well enough for my needs. https://github.com/danhper/fish-fastdir