How can i implement autocomplete commands with tab in telnet client (for example puTTy).
I have socket server written in go:
server := tcp_server.New("localhost:9999")
...
server.Listen()
But telnet client puTTy send me char only when i press enter, so i can't check every character to find if it match "\t" and do autocomplete commands.
I think you need something like termbox-go https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go
package main
import (
"fmt"
termbox "github.com/nsf/termbox-go"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
"os"
)
/*
this is a simple cli program, this keeps polling the command line argument
until tab or Esc is pressed,
if TAB is pressed it does a google search of the word previous to that
and exists incase someone presses enter
*/
func main() {
termbox.Init()
defer termbox.Close()
var searchString string
for {
ev := termbox.PollEvent()
switch ev.Type {
case termbox.EventKey:
switch ev.Key {
case termbox.KeyTab:
meaning := getMeaningFromWeb(searchString)
fmt.Println(meaning)
searchString = ""
continue
case termbox.KeyEsc:
panic(1)
default:
searchString = searchString + string(ev.Ch)
}
case termbox.EventError:
os.Exit(1)
default:
continue
}
}
}
func getMeaningFromWeb(a string) string {
cl := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/search.json?q="+a, nil)
req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "whitespace")
req.Header.Set("Host", "reddit.com")
resp, err := cl.Do(req)
defer resp.Body.Close()
response, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Sprintf("%v", response)
}
return fmt.Sprintf("%s", string(response))
}
this is an example of using this in commandline application, if you run this application, it will accept words(on press of tab) and quit(on pressing escape). this application searches a sub reddit for wallpaper. I am printing the response to terminal. Its not perfect, there is some config( I will update as soon as I can) that needs to be set for user input to appear. Plus there is no filter as of yet to use backspace. You won't see what you type and you can't use backspace, but the rest of functionality does as I described.