You can easily write a portable one. Just read and discard until no more available. Then make the call to the input read.
> On May 3, 2019, at 7:28 AM, Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've a terminal app where I read y/n confirm using fmt.Scanln and I'm trying > to flush the keyboard buffer before this. > > On linux (and probably other UNIX systems) I can use > > unix.Syscall(unix.SYS_IOCTL, 0, unix.TCFLSH, 0) > > but this isn't portable (specifically to macOS which it would be nice to > support) since on cross compiling I see "undefined: unix.TCFLSH" Maybe this > is some BSDism? > > Rossetta code suggests using a ncurses function from > https://github.com/rthornton128/goncurses but that seems sort of ugly? > > https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Keyboard_input/Flush_the_keyboard_buffer#Go > > Is there a simple way which works at least on UNIX and macOS? > > -- > Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com> > cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
