Ze.sh – a z.sh-derived directory jumper that uses an event clock
z.sh and zoxide (and other frecency-based directory jumpers) couple score decay to wall-clock time. After any extended period of inactivity (e.g. holidays) the first directories visited on return dominate the ranking regardless of prior history, and the tool effectively has to relearn ranking from subsequent navigation. The underlying issue is that wall-clock time during shell inactivity carries no information about directory relevance. ze.sh replaces wall-clock time with an event clock that advances one tick per cd action. Scores decay only while navigation is occurring. Inactive periods…
Ze.sh – a z.sh-derived directory jumper that uses an event clock launched on June 22, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,466 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
ze - directory jumper and file tracker (z-fork) with event-clock-based exponential moving sum scoring - jghub/ze
ze.sh is a shell-native directory jumper and file tracker for bash , zsh , ksh93 , and mksh (e.g. Termux/Android). ze.sh originated as a fork of z.sh but has since been substantially rewritten. The interface and the cd-driven directory-tracking model remain z.sh-like while the scoring model, internal structure, and shell compatibility approach are independent reimplementations. ze.sh replaces z.sh's frecency heuristic with an exponential moving sum (EMS) scoring model and includes numerous behavioral improvements (see list of changes ). fish is supported via a lightweight wrapper around the native implementation. source /path/to/ze.sh Important : ze.sh is designed to use ze for all…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
z.sh and zoxide (and other frecency-based directory jumpers) couple score decay to wall-clock time. After any extended period of inactivity (e.g. holidays) the first directories visited on return dominate the ranking regardless of prior history, and the tool effectively has to relearn ranking from subsequent…
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