On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote:
> On 2010/01/05 17:46, Jeff Frasca <phaed...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > When done in the completer code, it requires two extra fork()/exec()s of > > the sed and sort code. The sed and sort code are more general than we > > would write, but they are also already debugged, and not that much more > > overhead for something that runs no more than once or twice in a second, > > and then only occasionally. > > mpc used to have (or still has? I'm not sure) special commands for > the bash completion. That should be avoided if possible, because mpc > shouldn't be bloated with interactive features. mpc isn't supposed to > be an interactive client, and I think bash+sed (as you said) might be > well enough for implementing the completion. > It still does have a tab and lstab command. For a short-term solution, it sounds like the currently implemented 'tab' command could be modified. Currently, it lists everything, then sees if each individual thing is a match to the given partial name. It could instead list the dirname of the partial name and check for matches to the basename of the partial name. This wouldn't add a ton of bloat, it seems. For long-term... Clearly Jeff uses mpc as an interactive client, and I do as well sometimes; we're probably not the only ones. Mpc is really quite close to an ideal command-line interactive client already, so what's the best approach for adding any desired interactive features? It's not just an additional few commands - stuff like the globbing mentioned earlier would modify existing commands. Jeffrey
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