Re: persistant Directory history?

[chesss <testingagain@xxxxxxxxx>]

Finally this worked for me  just perfect :)  . i got it from
http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2006/msg00173.html

DIRSTACKSIZE=20
if [[ -f ~/.zdirs ]] && [[ ${#dirstack[*]} -eq 0 ]]; then
dirstack=( $(< ~/.zdirs) )
popd > /dev/null
fi
precmd() {
dirs -l >! ~/.zdirs # added -l
}
cd

The only problem with the above was that a new shell would start with
the last directory. So I added the extra 'cd' at the end :D
Thanks all

On 11/7/06, Francisco Borges <f.borges@xxxxxx> wrote:
> : On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:15PM +0530, chesss wrote:
>
> > Basically I want to save the directory stack automatically and have
> > ctrl+r like history..
> > Possible?
>
> I really wish the zsh-devs would include something for this in Zsh.
> After I started having a persistent dirstack, I really had to wonder how
> I had lived without it for so long :-)
>
> Turns out there is a lot of people with custom ways to implement it.
>
> [...]
>
> As Stephane pointed out, all you need to do is to somehow set the
> dirstack variable when you log in.
>
> But I rather rewrite the zsh_dir_file everytime I change dirs. instead
> of only after logout. Also (making a long story short) right after
> login, just setting $OLDPWD won't allow you to use
>
> % cd -
>
> so I force the shell to visit the first dir in the stack to be able to
> have this.
>
> #-------------------------------------------------
> # http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2006/msg00173.html
> # Adding a (rather primitive) dirstack history
> DIRSTACKSIZE=20
> if [[ -f ~/.zdirs ]] && [[ ${#dirstack[*]} -eq 0 ]]; then
>     dirstack=( ${(uf)"$(< ~/.zdirs)"} )
>     # "cd -" won't work after login by just setting $OLDPWD, so
>     cd $dirstack[0] && cd - > /dev/null
> fi
> chpwd() { dirs -pl >! ~/.zdirs }
> #-------------------------------------------------
>
> My 2 cents on the topic....
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Francisco Borges