Interactive option

[oleiade]

I'd really to be able to create interactive flags: when it's used, it will read it's value from standard input.

example:

$ mycmdlineapp --ask-password
password: *******

It's golang usage could like:

cli.InteractiveFlag{"ask-password, a, password", "default-password", "Asks for password"}

What do you think?

[kytrinyx]

I have that use case, but for individual commands as well as for a whole app, and I'd want any number of them.

$ mycmdlineapp stuff
a question: something
another question: abc123
yet another question: more answers

[codegangsta]

I'm not sure this needs to be in the cli package itself. I needed to have an interactive mode so I did it this way:

https://github.com/codegangsta/hip/blob/master/hip.go#L64-L78

[kytrinyx]

Yeah, I've got code that handles it, as well. I'm happy to keep it that way, if you think that it's best to keep it out of the cli package.

Should this issue be closed, then?

[codegangsta]

Yup. Closing

[kytrinyx]

❤️ <-- random open source love (thanks for writing this package)

[codegangsta]

Thanks for reminding me to clean up these issues. I have been so busy with
Martini that I have somewhat neglected cli in the process. :)

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[oleiade]

Wow, closing that ticket without even letting me troll a little bit. That's rude.