what's the principle of this project?

[axeprpr]

I'm sorry, I'm not very familiar with the mechanisms of expect in windows. I noticed that almost all expect Go code fails to work on Windows due to pty. Why does this project work? Is Lua required for it? If so, can this project run on Linux?

[hymkor]

Thank you for your insightful question.

Expect.Lua does not use pseudo terminals.

Expect.Lua monitors the text output by the child process by periodically directly reading the line where the cursor is and the line before it on the terminal screen using the Windows API ( ReadConsoleOutputW ).

Therefore, Lua is not needed for that purpose.
Also, this program does not work on Linux.

[axeprpr]

I understand it now. Thank you very much!