Bug 183532

Summary: Tab completion for valid paths as arguments in KRunner Command Line plugin
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: Stephan Sokolow <kde_bugzilla_2>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: chaofeng111, dominik.tritscher
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Stephan Sokolow 2009-02-07 09:02:26 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.25-gentoo-r7-20080501

I often find myself using Yakuake to launch GUI apps just because KRunner doesn't allow me to type something like this:

mplayer ~/in<Tab>/Vid<Tab>/MS<Tab><Enter>

(Resulting in "mplayer ~/incoming/Videos/MST3K_-_Toobular_Boobular.flv")

What I propose is that if there's exactly one result and it's for the Command Line plugin, then the normal tab behaviour should be replaced with a simple tab completion function which completes valid paths and file:// URLs. (Naturally, support should be included for resolving ~ and ~username)

Of course, if you'd prefer not to default to having an exception to the normal Tab key behaviour, I'd have no problem with the feature being optional, off by default, and controlled by a checkbox in the Command Line plugin preferences.
Comment 1 Dominik Tritscher 2009-02-08 19:14:14 UTC 
This report is a feature request, so I marked it as wishlist item.

Anyways, tab completion for KRunner is a must have :)
Comment 2 Stephan Sokolow 2009-02-08 19:29:00 UTC 
Oops. Sorry about that. I was in a bit of a rush when I filed this and I guess I forgot to change the report type from the default.
Comment 3 Chao Feng 2014-06-02 10:07:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 102132 ***