I used the drush cli and the 'cdd ' commands religiously every day. And now they are gone in Drupal 5. I see they were removed in http://drupalcode.org/project/drush.git/commit/700040cfc1410f4bd7bed8fdb... (without a drupal.org issue to discuss). This functionality cannot be replicated with bash completion, nor a use command.

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Note that this is still referenced via the drupal-directory command:

dave@XPS410:~/Dropbox/Projects/drupal7dev$ drush drupal-directory --help
Return the filesystem path for modules/themes and other key folders. Used by `cli` command for handy commands `cdd` and `lsd`. If you want to use this command directly, you usually want to prefix the command
with cd and enclose the command invocation in backticks. See Examples below.
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Also cli is referenced in several of the example files.

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greg.1.anderson commented

The docs referenced above should clearly be changed.

I agree that cdd is very useful. In general, command-completion gives a much better user experience than the separate subshell that core-cli provided, but there are a few functions such as cdd that cannot be easily provided as drush commands. Please note, however, that there is a bash function called cdd defined in examples/example.bashrc. This example file has been designed so that you can source it directly from your bashrc. For an example of how I use this file, see:

https://github.com/greg-1-anderson/utiliscripts/blob/master/custom-bashrc

Note that for my shell, I alias cd='cddl', which is like 'cdd' from drush-4.x. The 'cdd' in drush-5.x is enhanced to ssh to the remote server when the alias it is used with is remote.

If you have any suggestions about how we could make this better / more obvious / more accessible to folks, please let me know. I suppose at a minimum, we could put a new version of core-cli in drush-extras (extras-cli?), and have it do nothing more than source the example bashrc file from drush. :)

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moshe weitzman commented
Status: Active » Fixed
Issue tags: +Needs change record

Fixed help text. We'll add a change notification for `cdd` relation to example.bashrc

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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moshe weitzman commented
Issue tags: -Needs change record

Change notification added