FR: specify directory

[themattliberty]

It would be cool if I could specify on the command line a single directory I want equis to search.

My use case is that I have two directories in my registry: one containing various software projects, and one containing Chef cookbooks relating to these projects. Each chef cookbook is named similarly to its corresponding software project, and so when I do x --all both appear in the fuzzy finder when I type the project's name, and the top one is not always the one I want to go to.

I'd like to be able to make aliases, something like xx='x --dir $HOME/development' and xc='x --dir $HOME/cookbooks', so that when I want to jump to a cookbook, only cookbooks are listed, and when I want to jump to a project in ~/development, only those projects are listed.

[danthegoodman]

@Msliberty I like it. How do you feel about this alternative solution to your problem:

x --all could present a list where it is no longer just the project name but would also include the registered directory name. In your case, you would see stuff like:

cookbooks/alpha
development/alpha
cookbooks/beta
development/beta
cookbooks/gamma
development/gamma

I think it could even be done so that the parent directory name only appears if there is a name collision.

[themattliberty]

@danthegoodman I like that a lot better, especially if the parent dir name appears only on name collision.