Make toot post prompt for input if no text is given

fixes #82

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Changelog
 
 * Enable interaction with instances using http instead of https (#56)
 * Enable proxy usage via environment variables (#47)
+* Make `toot post` prompt for input if no text is given (#82)
 
 **0.19.0 (2018-06-27)**
 

toot/commands.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from toot import api, config
 from toot.auth import login_interactive, login_browser_interactive, create_app_interactive
 from toot.exceptions import ConsoleError, NotFoundError
 from toot.output import print_out, print_instance, print_account, print_search_results, print_timeline
-from toot.utils import assert_domain_exists
+from toot.utils import assert_domain_exists, multiline_input, EOF_KEY
 
 
 def timeline(app, user, args):
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ def post(app, user, args):
     if media and not args.text:
         args.text = media['text_url']
 
+    if not args.text:
+        print_out("Write or paste your toot. Press <yellow>{}</yellow> to post it.".format(EOF_KEY))
+        args.text = multiline_input()
+
     if not args.text:
         raise ConsoleError("You must specify either text or media to post.")
 

toot/utils.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+import os
 import re
 import socket
 import unicodedata
@@ -68,3 +69,18 @@ def trunc(text, length):
         return text
 
     return text[:length - 1] + '…'
+
+
+EOF_KEY = "Ctrl-Z" if os.name == 'nt' else "Ctrl-D"
+
+
+def multiline_input():
+    """Lets user input multiple lines of text, terminated by EOF."""
+    lines = []
+    while True:
+        try:
+            lines.append(input())
+        except EOFError:
+            break
+
+    return "\n".join(lines).strip()