go-prompt

Library for building a powerful interactive prompt, inspired by python-prompt-toolkit. Easy building a multi-platform binary of the command line tools because written in Golang.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/c-bata/go-prompt"
)

func completer(d prompt.Document) []prompt.Suggest {
	s := []prompt.Suggest{
		{Text: "users", Description: "Store the username and age"},
		{Text: "articles", Description: "Store the article text posted by user"},
		{Text: "comments", Description: "Store the text commented to articles"},
	}
	return prompt.FilterHasPrefix(s, d.GetWordBeforeCursor(), true)
}

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Please select table.")
	t := prompt.Input("> ", completer)
	fmt.Println("You selected " + t)
}

Projects using go-prompt

c-bata/kube-prompt : An interactive kubernetes client featuring auto-complete written in Go.
rancher/cli : The Rancher Command Line Interface (CLI)is a unified tool to manage your Rancher server
kris-nova/kubicorn : Simple. Cloud Native. Kubernetes. Infrastructure.
cch123/asm-cli : Interactive shell of assembly language(X86/X64) based on unicorn and rasm2
(If you create a CLI using go-prompt and want your own project to be listed here, Please submit a Github Issue.)

Features

Powerful auto-completion

(This is a GIF animation of kube-prompt.)

Flexible options

go-prompt provides many options. All options are listed in Developer Guide.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Emacs-like keyboard shortcut is available by default (it's also default shortcuts in Bash shell). You can customize and expand these shortcuts.

KeyBinding	Description
`Ctrl + A`	Go to the beginning of the line (Home)
`Ctrl + E`	Go to the End of the line (End)
`Ctrl + P`	Previous command (Up arrow)
`Ctrl + N`	Next command (Down arrow)
`Ctrl + F`	Forward one character
`Ctrl + B`	Backward one character
`Ctrl + D`	Delete character under the cursor
`Ctrl + H`	Delete character before the cursor (Backspace)
`Ctrl + W`	Cut the Word before the cursor to the clipboard.
`Ctrl + K`	Cut the Line after the cursor to the clipboard.
`Ctrl + U`	Cut/delete the Line before the cursor to the clipboard.

History

You can use up-arrow and down-arrow to walk through the history of commands executed.

Author

Masashi Shibata

Twitter: @c_bata_
Github: @c-bata
Facebook: Masashi Shibata

LICENSE

This software is licensed under the MIT License (See LICENSE ).

jesseward/go-prompt