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# mousetrap
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mousetrap is a tiny library that answers a single question.
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On a Windows machine, was the process invoked by someone double clicking on
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the executable file while browsing in explorer?
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### Motivation
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Windows developers unfamiliar with command line tools will often "double-click"
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the executable for a tool. Because most CLI tools print the help and then exit
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when invoked without arguments, this is often very frustrating for those users.
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mousetrap provides a way to detect these invocations so that you can provide
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more helpful behavior and instructions on how to run the CLI tool. To see what
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this looks like, both from an organizational and a technical perspective, see
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https://inconshreveable.com/09-09-2014/sweat-the-small-stuff/
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### The interface
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The library exposes a single interface:
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func StartedByExplorer() (bool)
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