I'm working on a project where I will need to prompt the user for some information. I'd like the answer to be "pre-populated" on the screen and if the user would like they can backspace over it and type in a different answer or just hit enter as if they typed in the default value themself. I've played around with <STDIN> but I cannot make it work exactly as I'd like. I like the question to look like this:

What type of server?: BRANCH

With BRANCH being the default answer and if the user wants backspace over the word BRANCH and type in another answer or just hit enter. Does anyone have any ideas or other suggested methods to use?

In reply to Pre-populating <STDIN> with a default value by obonaventure

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