I couldn't do without a 'bookmarks' feature that I implemented for my terminal. It's triggered with `Alt+b`:

1. Scan an eternal history file for `cd` with absolute path except for /tmp/*

2. Sort and filter out duplicates

3. Call fzf and let user pick the desired result

4. Upon selection don't enter the directory but instead type `cd <selection>` into the prompt so that the user can navigate further using <Tab>.

What's nice about this approach is that it automatically builds your bookmarks, but only from `cd` commands where you deliberately used an absolute path.

Here's the code. It has some prerequisites (fzf[0] and ~/.eternal_bash_history[1]) and probably only works with my terminal (Xfce Terminal); it took a bit of tinkering to get it to work.

  # ~/bashrc.d/aliases.sh
  __b() { # bookmarks; props to fzf for providing examples of READLINE configuration
    local selected="cd "$(cat ~/.bash_eternal_history | grep '^cd /' | egrep -v '\.\.|/tmp' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq | fzf --exact)
 
    READLINE_LINE="${READLINE_LINE:0:$READLINE_POINT}$selected${READLINE_LINE:$READLINE_POINT}"
    READLINE_POINT=$(( READLINE_POINT + ${#selected} ))
  }

  bind -m vi-insert -x '"\eb": "__b"' 2>/dev/null

[0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19533853