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Liner
Liner is a command line editor with history. It was inspired by linenoise; everything Unix-like is a VT100 (or is trying very hard to be). If your terminal is not pretending to be a VT100, change it. Liner also support Windows.
Liner is released under the X11 license (which is similar to the new BSD license).
Line Editing
The following line editing commands are supported on platforms and terminals that Liner supports:
Keystroke | Action |
---|---|
Ctrl-A, Home | Move cursor to beginning of line |
Ctrl-E, End | Move cursor to end of line |
Ctrl-B, Left | Move cursor one character left |
Ctrl-F, Right | Move cursor one character right |
Ctrl-Left, Alt-B | Move cursor to previous word |
Ctrl-Right, Alt-F | Move cursor to next word |
Ctrl-D, Del | (if line is not empty) Delete character under cursor |
Ctrl-D | (if line is empty) End of File - usually quits application |
Ctrl-C | Reset input (create new empty prompt) |
Ctrl-L | Clear screen (line is unmodified) |
Ctrl-T | Transpose previous character with current character |
Ctrl-H, BackSpace | Delete character before cursor |
Ctrl-W, Alt-BackSpace | Delete word leading up to cursor |
Alt-D | Delete word following cursor |
Ctrl-K | Delete from cursor to end of line |
Ctrl-U | Delete from start of line to cursor |
Ctrl-P, Up | Previous match from history |
Ctrl-N, Down | Next match from history |
Ctrl-R | Reverse Search history (Ctrl-S forward, Ctrl-G cancel) |
Ctrl-Y | Paste from Yank buffer (Alt-Y to paste next yank instead) |
Tab | Next completion |
Shift-Tab | (after Tab) Previous completion |
Getting started
package main
import (
"log"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"github.com/peterh/liner"
)
var (
history_fn = filepath.Join(os.TempDir(), ".liner_example_history")
names = []string{"john", "james", "mary", "nancy"}
)
func main() {
line := liner.NewLiner()
defer line.Close()
line.SetCtrlCAborts(true)
line.SetCompleter(func(line string) (c []string) {
for _, n := range names {
if strings.HasPrefix(n, strings.ToLower(line)) {
c = append(c, n)
}
}
return
})
if f, err := os.Open(history_fn); err == nil {
line.ReadHistory(f)
f.Close()
}
if name, err := line.Prompt("What is your name? "); err == nil {
log.Print("Got: ", name)
line.AppendHistory(name)
} else if err == liner.ErrPromptAborted {
log.Print("Aborted")
} else {
log.Print("Error reading line: ", err)
}
if f, err := os.Create(history_fn); err != nil {
log.Print("Error writing history file: ", err)
} else {
line.WriteHistory(f)
f.Close()
}
}
For documentation, see http://godoc.org/github.com/peterh/liner
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the liner README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.