[sjburt]

You press z, type a few letters and then hit tab until you get the thing you want. It's not spatial. If you use ctrl-r frequently it's similar.

[kzrdude]

The examples show "z someinput" and enter, so then going to some place based on learned location for someinput, no?

It's not spatial because it's text-based but a similar problem occurs if it can surprise you about which location is going to be used for each input.

[kleiba]

Is there any advantage over CTRL-R?

[reeestandard]

With ctrl-R you'd presumably need a bunch of absolute path navigation commands in the past, with z you don't need to worry about that.

There may be more clashes, like picking up on filenames instead of directories.

Typing `z res` or whatever is also a bit faster than hitting ctrl-R then `res`.