how to use DIRSTACK

[samyakbardiya]

in the latest release v0.8.3, there's a change Zsh: allow z to navigate dirstack via +n and -n. so what exactly is this ?

I am guessing this is something like prevd and nextd of Fish.

but I am unable to use them :(

 ~/video ❯ z +n
zoxide: no match found

 ~/video ❯ zoxide +n
error: Found argument '+n' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context

USAGE:
    zoxide <SUBCOMMAND>

For more information try --help

can someone help me out with this one.

[ajeetdsouza]

z tries to act like a superset of cd on most shells. In zsh, you can use the pushd and popd commands to create a dirstack, which you can then navigate using these commands. For example:

• cd -3 goes 3 directories back.
• cd +2 goes 2 directories forward.

Now, you can do the same thing with z, i.e. z -3 and z +2. The reason for adding this to zsh is so that people who replace their cd command entirely with zoxide (zoxide init zsh --cmd cd) don't lose out on any features from the builtin cd.

[samyakbardiya]

thanks dude, you explained it in detail.

[martin-braun]

pushd and popd aren't equal to cds history. If I continuously call cd - I will alternate back and forth, because cd - will put my last dir onto the stack again, whereas popd will just pop the dir from the stack. I'm looking for the latter, but z emulates the former.