I find my self having to frequently jump between projects in the terminal, or opening new tabs in Terminal and needing to navigate to the project I am working on. I know there are some other tricks for doing this, some of the optimized for certain cases (like a new tab in the current directory), but I found this to be the most useful for how I work.
Since I keep all my projects in a directory called ~/src
I created a function called src
that would get me there quickly, so instead of this:
$ cd ~/src/my-web-site
I can do this:
$ src my-seb-site
Well, that’s nice and all, but with out tab completion I would never use it. Turns out that is stupid simple to solve with zsh’s rad completion system. My final solution looks something like this.
src(){cd ~/src/$1;}
compctl -W ~/src -/ src
Just drop that into your ~/.zshrc
file and you should be good to go. Feel free to replace src
with what ever you name your projects directory (Projects, source, awesome-stuff).
If you have not enabled zsh’s completion somewhere else in your configs, you may need to add the following before the compctl call:
autoload -U compinit
compinit -i
Of course, if that’s the case, I recommend installing Oh My Zsh and getting all sorts of goodness.