Autojump is my tool of choice for navigating directories. If I enter the following into the terminal:
$ j til
Autojump will try to guess where I want to go among directories I've previously visited. It uses a database of directories and their relative rankings to do so.
But there's a problem! These day I only want to visit ~/oss/til. In the past
I've visited ~/oss/hr-til and ~/oss/tilex hundreds of times. Autojump
always sends me there first. I don't want that!
$ j til
~/oss/hr-til
$ j til
~/oss/tilex
$ j til
~/oss/hr-til
After some source-diving I learned that Autojump stores this database on my
machine at ~/Library/autojump/autojump.txt. There, I found that
tilex is ranked highly in several places, and hr-til is ranked twenty times
higher than the initial rating of 10.
Manually changing those rankings back to the starting value or deleting the entries entirely solves the issue. Now, Autojump goes where I want on the first try:
$ j til
~/oss/til