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Blinking issue

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Description

Jonathan,

I used your great toolkit and made a stab are creating a CLI to work with docker. This is my project here: https://github.com/j-bennet/dockercli (it's in very early stage so please don't judge too harshly). I'm noticing there's a blink after each read_input and before result output. At first I thought perhaps I'm doing too much work when parsing input, but then, the blinking happens even when you press "enter" without typing in a command, when the cli defaults to outputting help on commands, and there's no work being done there at all. Also, blinking happens when you don't even run commands, but just quickly type some abracadabra in, while inside the dockercli.

Can you advise?
Thank you!

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Start by reproducing the blinking in the linked dockercli project, including empty input and rapid typing, then trace the interaction around read_input and result output. Done means identifying the cause of the blink and confirming that these input cases no longer produce it.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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