Incompatibility between . ranger and Zoxide

[griloHBG]

I have been using Ranger with its nice . ranger approach in order to be dropped into the last folder a navigate to in Ranger after I close it.

Recently I started also using Zoxide.

After I started using Zoxide, after I close the . ranger, after navigating to some folder and closing ranger, I am not dropped to the last folder and I see the following message on my terminal:

zoxide: no match found

Investigating a bit, I think I found where/why the error occurs. Also, I think I know how to solve it, but I would like to know from the developers if my idea is good or bad :)

With Zoxide installed, it is common to alias cd to __zoxide_z.

In this line:

ranger/ranger.py

Line 20 in 80baec6

cd -- "$chosen_dir"

We will have:

__zoxide_z -- /path/to/last/dir

This will cause the internals of Zoxide (you can use which __zoxide_z to check) to do this mistake:

zoxide query --exclude /path/to/initial/dir -- -- /path/to/last/dir

Which will bring the error

zoxide: no match found

IMHO, simply modifying cd -- "$chosen_dir" to cd "$chosen_dir" would solve such error.

But if you guys added -- in there, I assume it is because some corner cases might make cd misbehave. At the same time, I didn't find a documentation on cd talking about the possible usage of --.

So: is it "safe" to simply get rid of the --? 🙂

Thanks for your attention 😁