Comparison with other tools? about jump

[gsamokovarov]

Hey @dufferzafar, thanks for checking jump out!

Yes, I have been a heavy autojump user before creating jump. I too dislike its algorithm and that it forced me to type the directory I want to jump to in full, and if I made a typo, oh boy, it was always wrong. I haven't used z, but as far as I know, it doesn't do fuzzy matching.

Jump is all about fuzzy matching. If you use Command-P to quickly jump to a file in your editor, that's the matching algorithm jump uses to find directories. This means that you only need 2/3 consecutive letters out of the directory base name to find it and jump to it.

For example, I am the maintainer of a project called web-console. It lives under /Users/genadi/Development/web-console. If it's scored well enough (e.g. I visit it often) I can go there with j wc, j cons, j web-c, j webcons and so on. You can type a directory exactly and make a typo: j web-cosnole, jump's fuzzy matching algorithm will be smart enough to figure it out. This is something that autojump was quite unforgiving about and it's a pity if you spent much time typing and have a typo in the end.

You can try it and see how it feels. The main thing about jump is its fuzzy matching that makes you type less of the directories you want to visit. I have written a blog about it on https://www.hacksoft.io/blog/jump-a-faster-way-navigate/ where you may find more examples.

[dufferzafar]

Thanks a lot for your prompt response.

And you understood me pretty correctly - Sublime's Ctrl + P is exactly what I want.

I'm gonna switch to jump then!

Is there a way to import my autojump file (the one that stores paths & their weights) to jump so that I don't have to start from scratch?

[gsamokovarov]

Sadly no. 🤨 I've been thinking about adding autojump and z score files importers, but this is the first time it's actually requested. I cannot promise you a timely response here, but it's something for the queue. 😅

You can start anew and it will catch up quickly with your habits.