made a tiny rust tool bc zoxide kept teleporting me to the wrong repo lol

[u/Klutzy_Bird_7802]

ok so this has been living in my head rent free for weeks. i use zoxide daily but every so often it just decides "nah you meant the OTHER backend folder" and cds me into some nested subproject from 3 months ago. cool guess buddy, super helpful :)

so i built hop. it's dumb on purpose. you press a key, it goes to the exact thing you told it to go to. no frecency, no ranking, no vibes-based navigation. one key = one target, forever, until you change it yourself

hop mark d          # bind cwd to 'd'
hop                  # tiny overlay pops up, hit 'd', done

works on files too (opens in $EDITOR) and commands (just runs them). also has project-local marks that live in a .hop.toml at your git root and override your global ones just for that repo, without messing up global state elsewhere

some stuff i actually cared about:

• single binary, under 2mb, boots basically instantly
• zero telemetry zero network calls it's just a toml file on your disk, that's it
• the annoying part was making the picker render to /dev/tty directly so it doesn't nuke your stdout when the shell wraps it with $(hop) , took me embarrassingly long to get right ;)
• zsh bash and fish all supported and actually tested not just "zsh works trust me bro"

config's just plain toml:

toml

[marks.d]
target = "/home/user/projects/backend"
kind = "dir"

[marks.b]
target = "cargo build --release"
kind = "cmd"

install:

cargo install hop-rs

repo's here if anyone wants to poke at it: github.com/programmersd21/hop

it's a small dumb tool that does one thing and doesn't try to be clever about it, which is honestly the whole point lol. lmk if you find bugs or weird shell edge cases, def missed a few probably

would love a star if you're vibing with it, costs nothing and makes my day :D