[daffy]

One nice thing in zsh is that you can type `/u/lo/b<tab><return>` and be in `/usr/local/bin`.

[ti_ranger]

This is one of my primary dislikes of zsh ...

[enriquto]

Bash does the same thing here, typing tabs instead of slashes.

    /u<TAB>lo<TAB>b

same number of keystrokes actually

[Nullabillity]

Not quite. Zsh can use the subfolders to disambiguate which parent you meant, bash can't.

[enriquto]

Wow. While this is quite slick (and must have been funny to implement), I actually hate this kind of "magic" behavior.

[polack]

I usually hate magic too, but I have to say this is one of the cases where I like it. It's convenient without any danger attached to it since you're just switching directory and not actually executing something against this "unknown" path.

[pletnes]

How is it more or less magic than bash’s? It takes more context into account, sure, but it’s easy to understand and reason about.

[Jach]

For about a decade I've had in my bashrc

    C() { cd `$HOME/path-selector.sh "$@"`; }

where path-selector is from https://github.com/MarcWeber/path-selector

Opt-in bash extensions can do basically whatever people complain bash can't do. Though to be honest I don't use it that much over the last, say, 5 years. If I know a deep directory tree that well, I can just type it explicitly and/or tab complete it without losing much time. If I don't know it that well, FZF is quite nice.

[nostoc]

"bash: /usr/local/bin/: Is a directory"

What to you have in your bashrc to allow cd'ing in directories without typing cd?

[enriquto]

I prefer to type "cd", the directory-as-executable feature is a bit confusing for me.

But you can enable it in bash, the option has the same name as in zsh: autocd. Just run "shopt -s autocd".