Disscussion: call zoxide inside yazi

[gapplef]

Since the fd and zoxide in ubuntu's official repository is too old to function properly. I am trying to build a snap package which bundle all necessary dependencies. After some investigation I managed to do it. The configuration file actually quiet simple.

All things work fine except zoxide. The problem is zoxide is called with interactive selection mode by default in yazi, which need a directory database exist. This database is generate automatically once user use z/ zoxide to change directories.

This process have no problems for zoxide user. But for a yazi user, who may never used zoxide before, there is no way build up or edit the database inside yazi. I think some entry to call zoxide in normal mode to build up the database or some way to direct edit the database inside yazi would be much helpful.

A relate issue is #310

[sxyazi]

I have plans to reimplement zoxide as a Lua plugin and extend its functionality at that time. If all goes well, this will happen in the next target v0.2.1.

[gapplef]

Ok, that would be great.

[ysooqe]

Just out of curiosity, I have read this in a couple of your responses so far and I am wondering: what is the reasoning behind adding new features through Lua plugins instead of adding them natively?

[gapplef]

@sxyazi Do you have any interests to provide snap support?

I could make a pull request for the snapcraft.yaml file and github action to build snap package if welcomed.

[sxyazi]

That's great, it would be very convenient for Ubuntu users. Maybe we can add it to Yazi's release workflow?

[gapplef]

Done #531

[ysooqe]

I think there is another way to think about the point OP is making: Regarding zoxide, it covers a very certain use case: having favorite directories and jumping to them quickly, but I feel like there is another big use case that is probably not properly covered by zoxide (but people might assume it is): jumping to a directory based on an interactive fuzzy search, without any inherent "bias". Zoxide could be "abused" to do that (e.g. by writing a script that indexes all relevant directories), but it's not optimal, since directories would have to be (re)indexed into zoxide constantly.

I feel like this is what OP is looking for:
I am thinking of something along the lines of the current implementation of "cd --interactive", but with the addition of recursing into all subdirectories and defining an absolute "starting point" (most likely $HOME) so that it is possible to go from anywhere to everywhere really really quickly. It could be done using fd to generate a list of directories on the fly and then selecting one through fzf (or any of its cousins like nucleo), all of this integrated into the current interface for "cd --interactive".

I'd be happy to work on and submit a PR if this is something that would be accepted.

EDIT: it would be probably even better to create a list of directories on startup and cache it (and update it frequently).

[lpnh]

Your description made me think of Telescope. I'm not sure if it's directly related, but it could be worth a look. Maybe it could offer some ideas.