support path alias?

[pedoc]

For example, can I do

zoxide add C:\aaaa\bbbbb\cccc\dddd nice-name
z nice-name //This will jump to C:\aaaa\bbbbb\cccc\dddd

[ajeetdsouza]

This seems much better served by just a regular alias:

alias nice-name='cd "C:\aaaa\bbbbb\cccc\dddd"'

That way, you can also back it up with the rest of your dotfiles. zoxide is meant to be automatic - the user should not have to think about setting up aliases manually.

[eugenesvk]

Your suggestion of using regular aliases breaks the universal nature of the "z to cd workflow", so that's why it'd be better to set up an alias as z nice-name rather then nice-name

While the automatic nature of z is a nice default, the is still an issue that it's not 100% predictable, which aliases solve - you can always be certain to z to a given frequent dir regardless of its frecency match (besides the other benefit of a more convenient name)

[dkmar]

#1002 (comment)

regarding Path Aliases (608), for fish shell users we can do it with abbreviations. Sometimes for jumping to my Documents folder I type z docs which previously didnt work since it's not a substring of "documents".

I can add an abbreviation that substitutes "docs" in the context of the "z" command with "documents" like so:
abbr --add --command z -- docs documents

In this way we can do zoxide-specific aliasing/nicknaming.

This abbreviation means when you execute z docs, the commandline will be replaced with z documents before being ran.

[azaleacolburn]

That way, you can also back it up with the rest of your dotfiles. zoxide is meant to be automatic - the user should not have to think about setting up aliases manually.

@ajeetdsouza Does this mean you are not in favor of adding the bookmark command in #1019?