I use fzf completitions

  source <(fzf --zsh) > /dev/null

and the ** shortcut followed by <TAB>, e.g.

  cd ~/** # <TAB>

along with cd - to change to the directory before

  cd -

▲ robenkleene 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

This will hang if you have too many subdirectories (e.g., a good-sized company's monorepo). A networked volumes will also often cause it to hang.

(PS: In Zsh `cd -<tab>` will show a pop up menu of all directories in the history stack.)

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sandreas 2 days ago | parent [-]

Seems to be some kind of oh-my-zsh thing... cd - <TAB> does not work on my zsh config.

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robenkleene 2 days ago | parent [-]

Ah, good point, this isn’t `oh-my-zsh` but it does require a couple of options to work as described:

1. `setopt autopushd pushdsilent`: This is the key component, `autopushd` automatically adds directories to the directory stack (and `pushdsilent` option does it without echoing added directories). Without this option, there’s no directory stack to traverse (unless directories are first manually added to it with `pushd` [for completion, `popd` pops directories off the stack navigating back to those directories]). `autopushd` just calls `pushd` on the current directory after each `cd`.

2. To get a menu, Zsh completion also has to be loaded, e.g., `autoload -Uz compinit && compinit -C`

3. Finally `zstyle ':completion:*' menu select` is optional, but that highlights the selected match, which is a nicer UI in my opinion.

Those are the options I used to get this working with `zsh -f` (which starts Zsh with a default config).

	▲	sandreas 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Works, is really nice, thank you. May I (auto-)suggest: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Have fun ;-)

▲ jalk 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

in my homedir

  > fd -t d | wc -l 
  213842

takes 5 seconds.

Population doing `cd ~/**<tab>` takes way way longer than 5 seconds though.

But regardless of the speed up one could add to cd + fzf in this case, I will still be using zoxide:

  > zoxide query -l | wc -l
  1294

and `zi` starts instantaneous if I need the dynamic filtering

edit: layout