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Thank you for creating this project, I'm making great progress using it to plumb together some tools that wouldn't normally be able to easily talk to each other.

Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time programmatically distinguishing between normal println output and an exception or error. The only real indication that trenchman provides (as far as I can tell) is the color of the text.

Is it possible to either provide a flag that asks trenchman to output a piece of data with both stdout and stderr (e.g. trench --data -e '(' ➜ {:out nil, :err "clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo: EOF while reading"}) and/or indicate the type of output via the exit code (e.g. trench -e '('; echo $? ➜ … 2).

Regardless, I really appreciate this tool and I'm sure I'll find a way to work around this if improving it is out-of-scope.

Thank you!

Currently, Trenchman does not have built-in support for readline-like features, like line editing or history search.
The installation instruction suggests using the tool with rlwrap, but for more usability, it would be nice to have built-in support for readline.

Joker seems to use candid82/liner for readline, so it's worth giving it a try.