Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: bash-completion
I've repeatedly run into this irritating behaviour with bash-completion.
Here's a common situation for me.
Flash player is being buggy and playing unreliably. I go to /tmp and try to
tab-complete the Flash temp file in mplayer (or in /proc system for new flash
which unlinks, whatever).
But that file has no extension so bash completion fails.
Another example. I try to mplayer -loop 0 -fs foo.gif
But bash completion is unaware that gif is playable by mplayer, and
refuses to tab complete. inevitably the gif is from some web page and
has a name that doesn't copy/paste well, and I could really use bash
autoescaping and tab completion.
I'd appreciate it if bash-completion would:
1) complete for files with no extension regardless of app
2) if I tab complete for a file and there is only one match, complete it even
if you are unaware of whether the app supports it.
(2) isn't solved by better maintenance of extensions. the gif might be called
foo.php and I shouldn't have to rename it.
Thanks!
** Affects: bash-completion (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692275
Title:
Request bash completion complete for application when file param has no
extension, complete to unrecognised extension if only match.
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