Re: Better Use of dirs,popd?

[zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> :Hi
>> :It's annoying that if I do a
>> :> dirs -v
>> :I can list my recent directories but cannot cd to a particular one.
>> :I guess a nifty bit of scripting could do the job.
>> :any ideas other than a clunky
>> :dirs -v | gp '^13' | sed  etc etc
>>
>> % dirs -v
>> 0 /
>> 1 /tmp
>> 2 /home
>> 3 /staff
>> % pwd
>> /
>> % cd ~3
>> % pwd
>> /staff
>> % cd ~2
>> % pwd
>> /home
>> %
> 
> If you use cd -<num> instead, you can even tabcomplete at the - and
> see the stack. You can use a + instead of a - to reverse the numbers
> too.
> 

I'm stunned.
Is this zsh only?

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