Z is really good in this regard, but I still find myself relatively reaching for fzf's Alt+C keybinding, as I outlined in https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf way back. I think I need to come across some killer thing `z` does that I suddenly can't live without to overcome the activation energy.
I use this tiny function:
Z() {
[ $# -gt 0 ] && _z "$*" && return
cd "$(_z -l 2>&1 | fzf --height 40% --nth 2.. --reverse --inline-info +s --tac --query "${*##-* }" | sed 's/^[0-9,.]* *//')"
}See my other comment on combining z and fzf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39030391
e.g. a timetracker tool "squatted" the "t". I'm the one to decide if this tool is that important to get a one-letter. In this case I had to hack around, fork even, to be able to use t (which is my todo.txt stuff: t, tt, ta, tl, tp, etc) and to use the timetracker (b - no idea why I started using the b for this, decades ago: b, bl, bs, etc).
If a developer of a tool decides to "squat" one of the 27 letters in the alphabet, I think they have delusions of grandeur: You are quite certainly not building one of the 27 most important tools ever built.
In this case the app was installed via RBENV, so it works but only if I decide that all of the RBENV stuff must be after anything else, which breaks some other hacks/tricks. So it would work, until I forget about it and years later need some rbenv-installed tool to have precedence over something that was globally installed. After which that alias I forgot about now suddenly breaks.
I hate it when I'm working on A and get distracted because somehow now B fails and some rabbit hole is luring me in. I just want to check my TODO's for today: not fiddle around with $PATHS and aliases.
Aliasing somewhat helps, but is clumsy too:
alias b=t alias t=todotxt alias bl=b list --all
Sure, better organization solves this. But everything would be so much easier if the person writing "t" had stopped and rather just taken 'timetrack', 'ttrack', trac or whatever instead of "t". Somehow we probably won't like it if such a tool suddenly takes over "tr" or "time" either. I feel the same about "t".
26 would be for the English alphabet and therefore the terminal. I was mistaken.
U+0132 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ
U+0133 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ