Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[William Park]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:26:28AM -0400, Scott Allen wrote:
> 
> On Wed May 11,2005 02:44:43 PM Taavi Burns wrote:
> >On 5/11/05, John Vetterli <jvetterli-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> I'd like to have some sort of directory history (i.e. as I cd from
> >> directory to directory, have bash remember the last N directories
> >> I visited, and be able to go back).
> 
> >You mean 'pushd' and 'popd'?  (well, it might be nice to not have to
> >specify pushd)
> 
> I'd like something more like:
> Automatic pushd to a directory history list and then be able to 
> switch directly to any directory in the list. Not popd (with 
> directory lost), popd (with directory lost)...
> 
> I'm not sure how display and selection of the directory history list 
> would work. The 4DOS, 4OS2 and 4NT shells (for their respective OS's) 
> pop up a window (text based, a la curses) when you press ctrl-pageup, 
> from which you can cursor up/down and press enter to select a 
> previously visited directory. The same kind of pop up window is 
> available for command history.

1.  To go back to most recent directory, use 
	cd ~-
    I use 
	alias b='cd ~-'

2.  To go back even more, search the history buffer for 'cd '.  In
    vi-mode command-line, it is
	/cd 

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