minor annoyances

[wjtk4444]

Hey, I've been using playlistmanager for a while now and I wanted to share a list of small annoyances / mini-feature requests that I believe could be easily added (I hacked them in myself but I'm sure it could be handled in a more elegant way, hence why I'm opening and issue instead of a PR).

1. Add an option (or replace default behavior) to hide playlistmanager when calling playfile on currently played file.

Assuming default keybinds, I'd expect Enter -> Enter to toggle playlistmanager on and off without reloading currently played file.

Workaround/hack: check for cursor == pos in playfile() that removes keybinds and exits

2. Re-work/fix toggle option.

I would expect toggle to toggle playlist view indefinitely instead of showing it for playlist_display_timeout seconds.

Workaround/hack: high timeout value (as mentioned in playlistmanager.conf)

3. Allow for displaying playlist non-interactively (without adding keybinds).

I wrote some custom scripts that are supposed to display playlist in a purely informative, non-interactive way that does not overwrite input.conf keybinds.

Workaround/hack: yet another argument for script-message, ie.
playlistmanager show playlist [toggle|duration] [noninteractive].

4. Better scaling with window size.

I don't know enough about ASS to say anything meaningful here, but I've checked how mpv's built-in OSC handles scaling and results are easier to read and with less visual artifacts (using same font and trying to match rendered font size).

5. Allow for case-insensitive filename A-Z filename sorting (and make it default for alphanum sort?)

[FichteFoll]

Assuming default keybinds, I'd expect Enter -> Enter to toggle playlistmanager on and off without reloading currently played file.

The default binding to open (and close) the playlist is shift+enter and does what you propose.

Better scaling with window size.

Yeah, that would be helpful. Depending on the window aspect ratio, sometimes the playlist items can be unreadable.

[wjtk4444]

The default binding to open (and close) the playlist is shift+enter and does what you propose.

Nicely spotted, I just read it up and I could use it from within a script too. Thank you!

The name argument should be a short symbolic string. It allows the user to remap the key binding via input.conf using the script-message command, and the name of the key binding (...)

from mpv.io/manual