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mousetrap is a tiny library that answers a single question.

On a Windows machine, was the process invoked by someone double clicking onthe executable file while browsing in explorer?

Windows developers unfamiliar with command line tools will often "double-click"the executable for a tool. Because most CLI tools print the help and then exitwhen invoked without arguments, this is often very frustrating for those users.

mousetrap provides a way to detect these invocations so that you can providemore helpful behavior and instructions on how to run the CLI tool. To see whatthis looks like, both from an organizational and a technical perspective, seehttps://inconshreveable.com/09-09-2014/sweat-the-small-stuff/

The library exposes a single interface:

func StartedByExplorer() (bool)