joelthelion/autojump — Issue #81: All saved directory locations are run together as one location
Author: viking777
Created: 2011-12-01 16:39:15+00:00
State: open

I was interested in the autojump project and installed it from github downloads (version 18) onto Fedora 16 running gnome-shell 3.2 and the zsh shell. This is what happens after using cd a few times:

If I run jumpstat I get:

jumpstat
/mnt/lmde64/home/graham/progfiles
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/applications
2.0:	/mnt/lmde64/home/graham/progfiles
2.0:	/usr/share/icons
3.0:	/usr/share/applications
Total key weight: 7. Number of stored paths: 3

I then run:

j ic

Which should take me to /usr/share/icons

Instead, what I get is:

/mnt/lmde64/home/graham/progfiles
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/applications
j:cd: no such file or directory: /mnt/lmde64/home/graham/progfiles\n/usr/share/icons\n/usr/share/applications\n/usr/share/applications

As you can see all the directory locations are run together with a backslash and a letter 'n', and for some reason the 'applications' entry is duplicated. It is not really surprising that /usr/share/icons is not found.

Two other things. I have no idea where the database for autojump is to be found, perhaps you could tell me where it is with a full path. The second is that having read many of your replies and all of your documentation I notice that you repeatedly use the phrase "you need to source etc.etc.etc" in your answers. I am very sorry, perhaps this is my problem, but in the 10 years + that I have been using Linux and the 60 years + that I have been speaking English, I have never heard or seen this phrase before and have no idea what it means. So, if you are tempted to use this phrase in your answer to this question could you please explain it.

It is a really interesting project though or I wouldn't have bothered joining github.com to post this bug report.

Thank you in advance
viking777