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I did consider this, but it comes with problems:
zoxide query
sometimes needs to print other things tostdout
, such as in the case of invalid usage, or passing the--help
flag. This could result in strange behaviour if you're using a naivecode $(zq <keywords>)
command.- If there is any error while performing the query (eg. no match found), we print an error message to
stderr
, but nothing tostdout
. Here, too, this may cause confusing behaviour.
Currently, the "query: "
prefix allows us to keep the z
function logic rather straightforward - it saves the output of zoxide
, and if it starts with "query: "
, it cd
s into it.
However, this is a very valid usecase, and is one that I too would love to see zoxide
fulfill - so do tell me if you have any ideas about how to solve this!
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An alternative would be to offer a utility that would execute a given command with the results of a zoxide query
interpolated in certain places, for example:
zoxide execute code {<keyword>...}
(alias: ze
)
That gives you control over the entire command and you can skip execution if an error occurs. Things tend to get a bit complicated when you have multiple utilities with this behaviour (e.g. rust-parallel, fd with it's --exec
option) that call each other as you now have to escape the special syntax for each, possibly multiple times. I can't estimate how much of a problem that would be as I don't a usecase in mind that would require that.
Personally, I'd have no issue with using the zq
command optimistically with the occasional confusion. Shell environments don't tend to have good fallback behaviour in general, so you're keeping yourself to a much higher standard than most, especially in the case where someone passes --help
but tries to use the output as a path. I certainly don't intend to use this in combination with dangerous commands like rm -rf
.
I can't say much about the complexity of the implementation as I'm not familiar with the internals.
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You make a fair point, I will work on this.
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I've added this in d3e49bd, it will be released with v0.3.1. Thanks!
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Thanks a lot!
As an aside, I'd wanted to have a way to navigate different paths with less typing for a long time before you posted about this tool on reddit. I just want to thank you for that.
Anything I would have built wouldn't have been nearly as useful as this. I realize it's inspired by other projects, but I couldn't have trusted a large shell codebase and not having to install lua makes setup easier as well. That's useful cause you can bet I'm going to install this on any PC and server of mine.
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Thank you, that means a lot!
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