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Prompt that reads/processes chars as they are fed to stdin? [Question]
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Description
Hi there,
I've started building something in the vein of jq/jiq, but for HTML, and you can see a demo of it in this asciicast: 
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Right now, I'm doing the input processing and display parts with raw ANSI codes and mostly leveraging termios/tty/os. This has proven quite fiddly; and prompt_toolkit seems pretty mature/has a whole other bunch of nice things, but I would need this one critical feature of character-by-character reading from stdin.
Does prompt_toolkit support this?
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Start by reviewing prompt_toolkit's input handling and the termios/tty/os approach described in the issue. Determine whether character-by-character stdin processing is supported, then document the answer or define the missing capability and its expected behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Stale
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- Needs clarification
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- 25/100