gore

Yet another Go REPL that works nicely. Featured with line editing, code completion, and more.

(Screencast taken with cho45/KeyCast)

Usage

gore

After a prompt is shown, enter any Go expressions/statements/functions or commands described below.

To quit the session, type Ctrl-D or use :q command.

Features

• Line editing with history
• Multi-line input
• Package importing with completion
• Evaluates any expressions, statements and function declarations
• No "evaluated but not used" errors
• Code completion (requires gopls)
• Showing documents
• Auto-importing (gore -autoimport)

REPL Commands

Some functionalities are provided as commands in the REPL:

:import <package path>  Import package
:type <expr>            Print the type of expression
:print                  Show current source
:write [<filename>]     Write out current source to file
:clear                  Clear the codes
:doc <expr or pkg>      Show document
:help                   List commands
:quit                   Quit the session

Installation

The gore command requires Go tool-chains on runtime, so standalone binary is not distributed.

go install github.com/x-motemen/gore/cmd/gore@latest

Make sure $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH.

Also recommended:

go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest   # for code completion

Or you can use Docker:

docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/x-motemen/gore

FAQ/Caveats

• gore runs code using go run for each input. Every line entered is evaluated repeatedly (#67), so you can't bind the evaluated time by time.Now(), for example. This implementation also makes the execution fairly slow (#182). This project started from a simple idea to use go run for all REPL input. I think this project has provided some value for Go users, but these days there are other REPL implementations that are more actively maintained and run faster. I recommend using gomacro or yaegi.
• gore support Go modules. You can load local modules when you start gore at the project directory. You don't need to go get to check the usage of a remote repository, :import github.com/... will automatically download that module. Also, you don't need to go get the pretty print module anymore. If you want to load a local code from $GOPATH, you need to create the modules file (go mod init ...) and then start gore at the project directory.

License

The MIT License.

Author

• motemen <[email protected]>
• itchyny <[email protected]>