knu / zsh-manydots-magic

manydots-magic - zle tweak for emulating `...'==`../..' etc.

manydots-magic for zsh

Synopsis

• manydots-magic - zle tweak for emulating ...==../.. etc.

Description

This tweek helps input ancestor directories beyond the parent (..) in a handy way. You can just type triple dots to input ../.., quadruple dots to ../../.., etc..

% .. [Hit <.>]
% ../.. [Hit <.>]
% ../../.. [Hit <^H>]
% ../.. [Hit <^H>]
% ..

As you see above, each of the /.. parts complemented by this tweak can be deleted by a single invocation of the backward-delete-char command, only if invoked right after the magic happens.

% .. [Hit </><.><.>]
% ../.. [Hit <^H>]
% ../.

Triple-dot is not a rarely used character sequence, and this tweak kind of "knows" when it should be expanded.

% ruby -e '(1.. [Hit <.>]
% ruby -e '(1...

% git log branch.. [Hit <.>]
% git log branch...

% git diff .. [Hit <.>]
% git diff ../.. [Hit <b>]      <- This may be a path...
% git diff ...b [Hit <ranch>]   <- Or not.
% git diff ...branch

How to set up

Put the file manydots-magic somewhere in your $fpath (typically in $ZDOTDIR which is set to something like ~/.zsh or ~/.zsh.d) and add these lines to your .zshrc:

autoload -Uz manydots-magic
manydots-magic

If you are enabling url-quote-magic, make sure to load url-quote-magic first and then load manydots-magic.

License

Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Akinori MUSHA

Licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. See LICENSE for details.

zsh-manydots-magic's Issues

Pressing `^H` and the backspace key does not remove an entire `/..`

Versions

• zsh-manydots-magic: https://github.com/knu/zsh-manydots-magic/tree/4372de0718714046f0c7ef87b43fc0a598896af6

% zsh --version
zsh 5.9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

I'm using Gentoo Linux, and only pcre and unicode use flags are enabled.

Problem

From the README, pressing ^H or the backspace key is supposed to remove an entire /...

% .. [Hit <.>]
% ../.. [Hit <.>]
% ../../.. [Hit <^H>]
% ../.. [Hit <^H>]
% ..

However, I couldn't get this behavior. Instead, ^H and the backspace key remove only a character.

.zshrc

fpath="$HOME/.zsh"

autoload -Uz manydots-magic
manydots-magic

Reproduction

1. Copy the above .zshrc to $HOME/.zshrc.
2. git clone https://github.com/knu/zsh-manydots-magic
3. mkdir $HOME/.zsh
4. cp zsh-manydots-magic/manydots-magic $HOME/.zsh
5. Run a new shell
6. Try pressing ^H after pressing . a few times.

Tag release

Hi, I was wondering if you could please tag a (stable) release to make it simpler for package maintainers. I'm thinking about releasing it in Arch Linux's AUR. Cheers.

No such widget `.manydots-magic.orig.backward-delete-char'

I am getting this issue after using zplug to load your code whenever I hit backspace.
No such widget `.manydots-magic.orig.backward-delete-char'
My config can be found here https://github.com/Jomik/dotfiles/blob/c92f8f78dabcb47bd275c90345907be3e26131db/home/zshrc

EDIT: Refer to actual commit and not master, for later usage if needed.

zsh: permission denied: ..

zsh: permission denied: ..
You can specify what you need
setopt auto_cd