zsh AUTO_CD proposal

zsh AUTO_CD proposal

[Dave Yost]

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The definition of

     setopt AUTO_CD

should be changed from

If a command is issued that can't be executed as a normal command, 
and the command is the name of a directory, perform the cd command to 
that directory.

to

If a command is issued that can't be executed as a normal command, 
and the command is the name of a directory, then instead execute
    dirCommand dir

and zsh should provide a new builtin function

function dirCommand {
     cd "$1"
}

Personally, I would redefine this function to call a function that 
does a pushd.

Thanks

Dave

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Re: zsh AUTO_CD proposal

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:54:43PM -0800, Dave Yost wrote:
> Personally, I would redefine this function to call a function that 
> does a pushd.

An alternative is to "setopt auto_pushd", which turns every "cd" command
into a "pushd".  Then, if you didn't want a typed "cd" command to do a
pushdir, do this:

function mycd {
  setopt local_options noautopushd
  builtin cd ${@}
}
alias cd=mycd

(That alias doesn't affect the auto_cd functionality.)

..wayne..

Re: zsh AUTO_CD proposal

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 16,  1:54pm, Dave Yost wrote:
} 
} The definition of
}      setopt AUTO_CD
} should be changed

No, it shouldn't.

We could add a user-level command-not-found handler, perhaps, but not
change AUTO_CD.

} If a command is issued that can't be executed as a normal command, 
} and the command is the name of a directory, then instead execute
}     dirCommand dir

Let's try to avoid camelCapsNames in zsh, please.  All other such
names have hyphens or underscores between words.

} Personally, I would redefine this function to call a function that 
} does a pushd.

Not sufficient simply to do this?

	setopt AUTO_PUSHD
	cd chdir () {
	  setopt localoptions NO_AUTO_PUSHD
	  builtin cd "$@"
	}

This accomplishes what you describe, in all versions of zsh that support
local options.  Or maybe you just want AUTO_PUSHD set all the time and
don't care about redefining "cd" to avoid it?