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Use a shell with decent auto-completion. I have not been irritated by this in years.
Won’t autocomplete fail if you do “cd d” and then try the autocomplete?
Or is that what you mean by “decent” auto-completion?
No, it will probably go to "Documents", and if you hit tab again it should go to "Downloads". (Assuming you have the normal default folders)
Not with a decent autocomplete. It will look for a folder starting with a small d and if it doesn't exist it looks at a folder with a large D.
The choice of the letter d was brilliant, that's for sure. Now I'm imagining a folder with a large D.
I don't get what you mean. It doesn't matter if you write a uppercase or lowercase d
bash's autocomplete fails (at least with default settings), but e.g. zsh can figure out what you mean
What shell would you recommend? 🤔
I use fish which is quite nice OOTB, although if you want a posix compliant shell, zsh with some plugins is also great.