I laughed at the comment "I’m pretty sure that nobody actually uses this feature" here, because I've been using exactly that for my global Makefile for a while now. I

Awesome, that's great!

One note, as of version 0.10.0 which was just released, just will look for files named .justfile in addition to justfile, so just may find your global justfile when you don't want it to. If you don't mind this, no change is necessary, but if you want to avoid it, you could name it something like ~/.global.justfile.

The shell completion that is generated with zsh does not take that switch into account it seems. When defining the alias .just as just -f=~/.justfile, .just -l will display the recipes of the justfile in the current directory instead of the recipes defined in ~/.justfile.

Gotcha, that's tricky. The zsh completions are auto-generated by clap, the argument parsing library just uses, with improvements by various contributors. I'll leave this issue open, in case someone wants to dive in, but I don't actually have much experience modifying the completions themselves, or with how zsh completions work in general, so it might be a while before this gets tackled.

One note, as of version 0.10.0 which was just released

Oh, thanks for the suggestion. I just did that.

I'll leave this issue open, in case someone wants to dive in, but I don't actually have much experience modifying the completions themselves, or with how zsh completions work in general, so it might be a while before this gets tackled.

Of course, no pressure 🙂

One note for anyone who wants to take this on, I think this could be made easier by adding a subcommand, something like --print-justfile-location. The autocomplete script could add --print-justfile-location to any just invocation, in this case one from an alias like just -f ~/justfile, so you could get the justfile location programmatically.

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