Navigate to directory with multiple specified parts

[CalebLarsen]

When I have multiple projects with the same name (IE src) then my options are to either do z project-name; cd src or z path/to/project-name/src.

A feature I find my self constantly reaching for is being able to use the matching feature with multiple parts of a path. In practice this would look like z proj/src which would take me to correct directory, since I provided the additional context.

I believe that this feature could be an answer to #929 and work in tandem with #1019 to make it much easier to use zoxide with multiple projects with similar directory structure (like Rust has).

[CalebLarsen]

My first idea for an algorithm to achieve this would be:

1. If the provided query is an exact directory match, Ignore the rest of this
2. Break the path up into segments
3. Start with possible options being the full database
4. Going through the list of segments in reverse order:
   4a. Query the options for possible matches of the current segment.
   4b. Replace Options with the results of the query
5. The best option after accounting for each segment is directory we choose.

[ajeetdsouza]

Does z proj src not work for this use case? Keywords are separated by space, and they get matched against the path in order.

[CalebLarsen]

You are totally right. I can't believe I've never done that before. Thank you for the response