mccI needed to get somewhere and I was like "I'll take the PATH" and now I'm lost enough I'm just trying to figure out how to get back to where I started
Ken Butler@mcc I've lived in the city for years and it still confuses me every time I try to use it.
Mark T. Tomczak@mcc I don't remember PATH ever giving me trouble in SML/NJ, but I never got into the language nearly deeply enough to do anything that wasn't an academic exercise, so who knows how many dragons live in there?
Tael 🔜 AC26@mcc I assumed you meant the PATH variable
codebuzz 🐧@mcc Fun thought while walking back. What did you learn along the way. Most likely a reason for that PATH :]
@mcc Open a new shell. It should reinit your PATH from your
.rc files and you'll be good to go.
demize
Sam Stephenson@mcc the trick for this is `hash -r`, or `rehash` in some shells
Krzysztof Sakrejda@mcc is this a metaphor for something IRL?
@wronglang it's not a metaphor I was on the PATH
@mcc that just makes it sound like a cult
Ellie@wronglang @mcc Our naming scheme is not great. https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-toronto/path-torontos-downtown-pedestrian-walkway/
PATH – Toronto's Downtown Pedestrian Walkway
The PATH is a mostly underground pedestrian walkway network in downtown Toronto that spans more than 30 kilometres of restaurants, shopping, services and entertainment. The walkway facilitates pedestrian linkages to public transit, accommodating more than 200,000 business-day commuters as well as tourists and residents. The PATH provides an important contribution to the economic viability of the […]
@mcc I wish there were far more vaguely-correct compass roses in the floor / ceiling. South-ish is great! Even if it really goes West briefly.
Instead we've got to hunt for 3pt-tall Union without an arrow and assume North is the opposite of that.
Or just follow the flood of other people at rush-hour and hope for the best.
(And yet I love it. More underground tunnels please.)
Yes, *that* dawn person@mcc There are maps near some of the building junctions. I don’t consistently remember the colour-direction alignment.
James Widman@mcc not sure if this is what you meant, but:
dirs -p | tail -n +2 | fzf
will select a directory from the list of dirs you've been to; this should work in both zsh and bash.
and at least in zsh you can do:
bindkey -s '\eg' 'eval "cd $(dirs -p | tail -n +2 | fzf )"
'
(i.e. bind <alt-g> to that command)
(not sure how to do the key-binding part in bash tho)
@JamesWidman @wronglang so, just to clarify https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-toronto/path-torontos-downtown-pedestrian-walkway/
PATH – Toronto's Downtown Pedestrian Walkway
The PATH is a mostly underground pedestrian walkway network in downtown Toronto that spans more than 30 kilometres of restaurants, shopping, services and entertainment. The walkway facilitates pedestrian linkages to public transit, accommodating more than 200,000 business-day commuters as well as tourists and residents. The PATH provides an important contribution to the economic viability of the […]
@JamesWidman @wronglang it's not a very good name
@mcc @JamesWidman or mastodon is too terminal-brained
@wronglang i am definitely way too terminal-brained
Avi Drissman 
@mcc @JamesWidman @wronglang oh I was wondering what you were doing in NJ https://www.panynj.gov/path/en/index.html
Florian@mcc oooh I feel that. It happened to me enough times that I now try to keep an eye out for the compass rose some places have on the ceiling.
I have a good sense of direction, but yeah, my first times in that labyrinth were very rough. And sometimes, still a bit lost. It doesn't help that every section looks identical to the others, just with slightly different shops.
It's The Backrooms, but make it "shops".
tj usiyan@griotspeak different kind of PATH. Houston has a thing like it but the Houston one doesn't have a name
forest 
Marc "ACAB" Godin@mcc Isn't that the point of the Toronto PATH? To embark on mysterious adventures?
rainwarrior@mcc I had a similar experience at the Eaton Centre when I discovered that they replaced all the flat maps with a computerized kiosk that tries to show you where to go in the most confusing 3D visualization I've ever seen.
Ruth / Anarchae@mcc The true Toronto downtown experience. The cold outside lures you into the labyrinth and then you can never get out.
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@mcc ii is So disorienting.