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I can tell it's not going to be as good - because you know.. 4 letters vs 2.

Jokes aside I don't think this provides anything over zsh or fish or another shell that supports directory and tab completion?

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When i said minimal, i meant WRT the .bashrc file. I didn't want extra stuff and functions there. Also, this is just cd with a glorified jumping feature. Like i said, it's a better form of 'cd'. You can't compare it to zsh/fish or other shells!!!

None of what you just said makes any sense. 'cd' isn't something unique to bash; indeed, a quick glance at the project didn't reveal that it's just trying to fix a deficiency in bash (although I did suspect it). 'cd' isn't broken; bash is. So you can absolutely compare this to zsh and fish, and the conclusion is that it's redundant and inferior to the built-in tools of those shells, which, incidentally, support all of the "features" of goto not only for cd but for any command (assuming, for zsh, just a few settings have been toggled to bring it out of brain-dead/bash- compatibility mode).

Hey. I think you know more, A-LOT more than me about shells and stuff. I use a normal out-of-the-box BASH shell. I don't find any deficiency in 'cd'. None, whatsoever. "Goto" just adds a couple of more features on top of it. That's it. I wanted to replicate Sublime Texts fuzzy-finder, I added a bookmark/shortcut thingy just for the sake of it(..you know more features. ) It helps me traverse between directories and that's that, dude.. Dunno about zsh, fish etc etc. No idea about auto-completes. I made it. Found it useful, wanted people to review it. It was fun, got to learn some more stuff. That's that. Sorry, If you didn't like it.

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