v l c whatchamacallit

[Tim Chase]

Based on reading the source that Shlomi linked to (and blowing the
dust off my Lua skills), if you can find and edit the cli.lua file on
your local machine (it's likely owned by root, so you might have to
use sudo to edit it), you can add an alias.  You want to look for the
line that reads

 { get_title"; { func = get_title; help = "the title of the current
stream" } };

and add an aliases entry to the second item of the table:

 { get_title"; { func = get_title; help = "the title of the current
stream"; aliases = { "gt" } } };

You should be able to find the file with either

  locate cli.lua

which should be fast if your locatedb is kept up to date, or you can
use

  find / -type f name cli.lua 2> /dev/null

which will churn over your entire drive's file-structure in hunt of
the file (taking a LOT longer).

Note that, unless you installed from source and are maintaining the
installation yourself, you likely have a package-manager maintaining
this file so (1) you likely have to edit the file as root or with
sudo, and (2) it might complain if you try to upgrade VLC or the
CLI, complaining that the file was modified locally.

-tim


On December 11, 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:40:55 -0800
> Paul Merrell <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Shlomi Fish
> > <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Use the "alias" command:
> > >
> > > [QUOTE]
> > >> get_title
> > > Atomic Kitten- The Tide is High-EPFk0X1p2fs.flv
> > >> gt
> > > Error in `gt' libvlc's "gt" is not a command
> > > Unknown command `gt'. Type `help' for help.
> > >> alias gt get_title
> > >> gt
> > > Atomic Kitten- The Tide is High-EPFk0X1p2fs.flv
> > >>
> > > [/QUOTE]
> > >
> > > I don't see a way to make it permanent at startup except by
> > > using something like:
> > 
> > Search your file system for a file named .bashrc (note the leading
> > period). Usually this will be in your /home/username directory.
> > Add your aliases to this file. It is read into your bash shell's
> > allocated memory any time you start a bash session. If you change
> > or remove some aliases during the current session, you can reload
> > the .bashrc back into the session with:
> > 
> 
> I'm familiar with bash's .bashrc and .bash_profile, but it won't
> help for setting up rvlc aliases, because rvlc does not use bash,
> but its own internal command loop written in Lua :
> 
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=share/lua/intf/cli.lua;h=5af1e736caf1ec5e8fe34b04965fab67bf8be74d;hb=HEAD
> 
> This command loop does not recognise Bash's aliases.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
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