Bug 55020

Summary:	shell tab completion work-alike
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	uzs5p3
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	brainstorm, faure, hnordin, Jochen.Trumpf, kde, khanreaper, pau.capdevila, psychonaut, slaout, yurii.kolesnykov
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description uzs5p3 2003-02-22 15:36:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

It would be nice to have something like tab completion in minicli. I take it the tab key itself is unavailable because it has to switch between widgets, but some other easy to reach key or combo could do (say Ctrl-Tab?). Similar to the way bash does it, multiple legal completions could be displayed in the drop down list.

I have always regretted that minicli only shows previously entered commands, rather than all possible completions. This approach could allow a compromise with regards to case sensitivity. While I would loath minicli to start commands case insensitively, completion could be case insensitive. Then its possible to complete "KWord" to "kword", or "Quanta+" to "quanta", for example.

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2003-02-24 19:53:58 UTC

And for which directories should it do completion?

Comment 2 uzs5p3 2003-02-24 23:49:35 UTC

Subject: Re:  shell tab completion work-alike

> ------- Additional Comments From binner@kde.org  2003-02-24 19:53 -------
> And for which directories should it do completion?

For $PATH and for whichever recource it accepts as well, say servicenames and 
soon-to-come .desktop name entry, if possible. 

I just realized, though, that using an additional  hotkey is completely 
unecessary, if a drop down list is shown, as you can just move down with the 
curser keys -- been too focused on the shell. So my wish should have been to 
include possible completions from the $PATH, servicenames, local absolute 
paths, etc. in the drop-down list, which is already shown for previously 
entered commands. Konqueror does this for local paths up to the next 
directory level in its location bar.

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2003-08-23 13:07:05 UTC

*** Bug 61463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Stephan Binner 2005-02-23 00:35:49 UTC

*** Bug 99992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Pau Capdevila 2005-02-23 00:53:56 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 6 Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2005-07-15 00:06:55 UTC

It should become case insensitive like with tree view etc., and show file systems' file/folders (as in konqueror's location). This feature IMHO will make life easier. Especially the Case-Insensitive Drop-Down List and File/Folder in filesystem.

for example:

if we have a file called "Document.txt" in /tmp i.e., /tmp/Document.txt

then typing Alt+F2 then /tmp/d should get /tmp/Document.txt in the drop down list as same as konqi. Observe that it is doing case insensitive and filesystem search. Thanks David Faure for your amazing work!

Comment 7 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-07-21 02:00:35 UTC

*** Bug 159596 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Jochen Trumpf 2009-09-02 04:32:07 UTC

Could this one 

http://code.google.com/p/fsrunner/

be added to the list of default runners? It seems it almost perfectly matches what is being requested here?

Comment 9 Alexander Lohnau 2020-07-13 08:34:29 UTC

*** Bug 351467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Alexander Lohnau 2020-07-13 09:17:23 UTC

*** Bug 211110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Alexander Lohnau 2020-07-13 09:20:03 UTC

*** Bug 102132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Alexander Lohnau 2020-10-11 09:53:28 UTC

*** Bug 229537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 uzs5p3 2020-10-17 19:38:02 UTC

This seems to have been fixed a long time ago. As far as I am concerned it can be closed. Arr there any objections.

Comment 14 uzs5p3 2020-10-24 13:43:29 UTC

Fixed as far as I am concerned.