I think I want it for the file shortcuts alone. Those will save me tons of keyst...

mceachen · on April 25, 2012

If you use bash or zsh, you might want to check out CDPATH. From the bash man page:

  CDPATH The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated
  list of directories in which the shell looks for destination
  directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is ".:~:/usr".

jonathanwallace · on April 25, 2012

Beware: CDPATH can wreck some eye-gouging pain when compiling ruby gem extensions.

And by eye-gouging pain, I mean that it takes you an extended period of time to determine why you can't bundle env-js when everyone else seems to have no problem. A simple export CDPATH="" resolves the issue with no problem.

adito · on April 25, 2012

I think what he means is the $e1, $e2, ... shell variable shortcut. Not the `cd` to some directory.