Feature: Jump directory using z for fish

[roele]

As some might find it handy i'll share my custom function to integrate with https://github.com/jethrokuan/z.

#
# fzf jump directory function
#
# requires: https://github.com/jethrokuan/z
# __________________________
#

function _fzf_jump_directory

  if not type -q z
    set_color red
      echo "_fzf_jump_directory: z not found." >&2
    set_color normal
    return 1
  end

  set current_token (commandline --current-token)

  set command_z (
    z -l | sort -rn | cut -c 12- | _fzf_wrapper --query=$current_token $fzf_jump_directory_opts
  )

  if test $status -eq 0
    cd $command_z
  end

  commandline --function repaint

end

Once defined you can bind the function to keys of your preference.

function fish_user_key_bindings
  bind \cz _fzf_jump_directory            # Ctrl-z
end

[dgmulf]

Brilliant! Thank you so much for this contribution. It's exactly what I was searching for. A nice additional feature would be to implement the same directory contents preview used in the built-in picker.

[roele]

@dgmulf Not sure what built-in picker you're referring to but adding a directory preview is pretty stright forward. Just append --preview='ls -alh {1}' to the _fzf_wrapper command. If you're using exa you could also show a tree view (lt 2 {1}) for example.

[dgmulf]

@roele Thanks! I was referring to _fzf_search_directory.fish, included in the core plugin. I just copied the preview argument as it appears there, --preview='_fzf_preview_file {}', for the sake of consistency, and it appears to work properly.

[PatrickF1]

If you use https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide, you can get something very similar when you run zi.