.flv files finally tab-complete with mplayer
After a long time of playing .flv files in mplayer on the command line in Gentoo, I noticed recently that they now tab-complete. I’m not quite sure how recently this change occurred or what caused it, but I’m very pleased with the update.
I’m not quite sure how the tab-completion infrastructure works, but I know it’s got a lot of “packages” for different programs. A surprising amount, actually. For the uninitiated, on my system, I’m looking at:
dfego@antica ~ $ eselect bashcomp list
Available completions:
[1] _subversion
[2] apache2ctl
[3] base *
[4] bitkeeper
[5] bittorrent
[6] cksfv
[7] clisp
[8] dsniff
[9] eselect *
[10] freeciv
[11] gcl
[12] gentoo *
[13] git *
[14] gkrellm
[15] gnatmake
[16] gpg2
[17] gvim
[18] harbour
[19] isql
[20] larch
[21] lilypond
[22] lisp
[23] mailman
[24] mcrypt
[25] mercurial *
[26] modules
[27] monodevelop
[28] mpc *
[29] mtx
[30] p4
[31] povray
[32] qdbus
[33] ri
[34] sbcl
[35] sitecopy
[36] snownews
[37] ssh *
[38] subversion *
[39] tig *
[40] tree *
[41] unace
[42] unrar *
[43] vim *
[44] xxd
The ones with the asterisks are ones I currently have enabled for my main user. As you can see, there are a lot of options to choose from, and for some weird reason, my git functionality died after a recent update. But wait… mplayer isn’t there… Interesting…
Interesting…
So where does mplayer’s tab-completion come from? It’s not just the normal one provided by the shell, because it before excluded certain file types.
Interesting. This must be investigated.
