This project began a few years prior to this commit history as an API for murex, my alternative UNIX shell, because I wasn't satisfied with the state of existing Go packages for readline (at that time they were either bugger and/or poorly maintained, or lacked features I desired). The state of things for readline in Go may have changed since then however own package had also matured and grown to include many more features that has arisen during the development of my shell. So it seemed only fair to give back to the community considering it was other peoples readline libraries that allowed me rapidly prototype my shell during it's early days of development.
I get this README isn't very interesting nor helpful at the moment. I promise I will embellish this a little more with some useful documentation and fancy GIFs (etc) as and when I get time. However for now, I would recommend the following:
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Reading the code in
/cmd/main.goas this is a working example implementation