A slight improvement of a quickstart example

[QuarticCat]

Try this:

# Change directory
alias xcd='cd "${$(xplr):-.}"'

If we decide not to navigate, xplr will return nothing, resulting in a bare cd, which is equivalent to cd ~. After changing to "${$(xplr):-.}", that situation will result in a cd ., which keeps still. This grammar is available in bash and zsh.

Also, in zsh, we can implement fish-like navigation via xplr by this line:

# [Ctrl-N] run xplr to navigate
bindkey -s '^N' '^Qcd "${$(xplr):-.}"\n'

where ^Q means push-line, and \n/^J means accept-line.

If we don't want to add this line into history, we can firstly open hist_ignore_space by

setopt hist_ignore_space

Then change the above line into

bindkey -s '^N' '^Q cd "${$(xplr):-.}"\n'

Note the space before cd.

My dotfiles

[sayanarijit]

Hey, awesome tips. I'm afraid these syntaxes might confuse the newcomers. So I'll link it in as "Advanced Tips & Aliases" instead.

Also, I think we can combine this with the tips shared here.