survey VS promptui

The dropdown is made with https://github.com/AlecAivazis/survey

If you want something a little more advanced, check out survey

Rather than get too far into the weeds with building a query through that library, it was ok to just query for every repo in the org and use https://github.com/AlecAivazis/survey to let the user filter at the command line. Might or might not be an idea to play with - it was _fun_ to see a couple of strong open source efforts play together /shrug :)

To create an interactive multi-select prompt we're going to use an awesome survey package:

I'm coming from the go world, where I loved the survey library. I was wondering, whether rust has a similar one.

I am looking for a way to move the terminal cursor in different directions. (like Up(n), Left(n), Right(n), etc.) I could do this with ANSI escape codes, but Windows CMD doesn't handle that well. Unfortunately, I can't find a library that runs well on Windows and Linux. Survey does handle that pretty good, for their interactive CLI functions like dropdowns etc. but I don't want to "steal" their code. Also, their implementation is very customized to fit to the project, which makes it hard to isolate the code for moving the cursor. Does anybody know a light way to do this? (I would also happily take a library suggestion!) Thanks in advance!

Thank you so much! The library is called Survey (which uses a package called terminal). It also allows you to use 'hjkl' like Vim.

The navigation is dealt with by the promptui framework, so in this respect the extension does not touch/re-defines it. This said, let's move the conversation on GitHub, I am sure we can find a way to make it work :)

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The fmt.Scan family of functions exist because there are similar functions in C, but they really aren't suitable for any purpose. I would recommend beginners to just avoid them completely because the way they work is endlessly surprising. In this case, the problem you're running into is that Scanln expects a line, but you had a space instead, but honestly, don't try to debug it, just switch to https://github.com/manifoldco/promptui.

This tutorial will guide us through building an interactive CLI app with Go, Cobra and promptui. We will learn how to prompt the user for input data and persist this data to an SQLite database. Unlike the previous app we built, this experience will feel more like a two way conversation.

I got into cli applications lately and came across cobra. It was highly intuitive and very much easy to use so I couldn't get enough of it and wanted to create something to make it useful along with promptui.

It uses this library to create an interactive prompt. Just use the up and down arrows to select the host you want.