readline

Readline is a pure go implementation for GNU-Readline kind library.

WHY: Readline will support most of features which GNU Readline is supported, and provide a pure go environment and a MIT license.

Demo

You can read the source code in example/main.go.

Usage

• Simplest example

import "github.com/chzyer/readline"

rl, err := readline.New("> ")
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
defer rl.Close()

for {
	line, err := rl.Readline()
	if err != nil { // io.EOF
		break
	}
	println(line)
}

• Example with durable history

rl, err := readline.NewEx(&readline.Config{
	Prompt: "> ",
	HistoryFile: "/tmp/readline.tmp",
})
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
defer rl.Close()

for {
	line, err := rl.Readline()
	if err != nil { // io.EOF
		break
	}
	println(line)
}

• Example with auto refresh

import (
	"log"
	"github.com/chzyer/readline"
)

rl, err := readline.New("> ")
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
defer rl.Close()
log.SetOutput(l.Stderr()) // let "log" write to l.Stderr instead of os.Stderr

go func() {
	for _ = range time.Tick(time.Second) {
		log.Println("hello")
	}
}()

for {
	line, err := rl.Readline()
	if err != nil { // io.EOF
		break
	}
	println(line)
}

Shortcut

Meta+B means press Esc and n separately.
Users can change that in terminal simulator(i.e. iTerm2) to Alt+B

Shortcut	Comment	Support
Ctrl+A	Beginning of line	Yes
Ctrl+B / ←	Backward one character	Yes
Meta+B	Backward one word	Yes
Ctrl+C	Send io.EOF	Yes
Ctrl+D	Delete one character	Yes
Meta+D	Delete one word	Yes
Ctrl+E	End of line	Yes
Ctrl+F / →	Forward one character	Yes
Meta+F	Forward one word	Yes
Ctrl+G	Cancel	Yes
Ctrl+H	Delete previous character	Yes
Ctrl+I / Tab	Command line completion	No
Ctrl+J	Line feed	Yes
Ctrl+K	Cut text to the end of line	Yes
Ctrl+L	Clean screen	No
Ctrl+M	Same as Enter key	Yes
Ctrl+N / ↓	Next line (in history)	Yes
Ctrl+P / ↑	Prev line (in history)	Yes
Ctrl+R	Search backwards in history	Yes
Ctrl+S	Search forwards in history	Yes
Ctrl+T	Transpose characters	Yes
Meta+T	Transpose words	No
Ctrl+U	Cut text to the beginning of line	No
Ctrl+W	Cut previous word	Yes
Backspace	Delete previous character	Yes
Meta+Backspace	Cut previous word	Yes
Enter	Line feed	Yes

Feedback

If you have any question, please submit an GitHub Issues and any pull request is welcomed :)