[char_pointer]

The forking is not noticeable on today's machines; especially on this rather small scale. And yes, I would say that typing "cd `bm log`" is more cumbersome than typing "cdbm l". cdbm does pretty much the same behind the scenes anyway (with some error and argument checking), so why worry about that one extra mini process?

[silentbicycle]

As noted above, I meant forking in the "fork a project" sense, not the fork(2) call.

I'm being a bit nitpicky, though, so I'm going to let it go.