I accidentally discovered that both “cd …” and “…” work, and moreover, I can add more dots to go back further! I’m using zsh on iTerm2 on macOS. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a cd feature. Is this specific to zsh or iTerm2? Are there other cool features I just never knew existed??

I’m so excited about an extra dot right now.

Yup, that’s what I’ve always understood. Seems like this is zsh-specific, since using the default Terminal app with zsh also works. Do you know if other shells (fish, csh, etc.) support this syntactic sugar? Anything else zsh has that I should know?

Well, I’m a fish guy, so there’s two things I can tell you:

  1. fish does not support this particular syntactic sugar.
  2. You can get fish-like autosuggestions in zsh via this: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
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Though I use fish as well, this is some good info 👍.

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Eshell, the Emacs shell, supports this feature out of the box, regardless of the OS it runs on.

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