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Hide/show cursor ANSI escape codes get printed even without a tty

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The hide/show cursor ANSI escape codes get printed even when piping the output to less, for example:

> python3 test.py | less
ESC[?25lESC[?25h|████████████████████████████████████████| 50/50 [100%] in 5.0s (9.98/s)

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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rsalmeicommented, Sep 18, 2020

Yeah, they are really not needed. Nice catch!

I’ll fix that in the 2.0, hope you can wait. I’m struggling very much with those wide chars you brought to my attention… Please read the UPDATE I wrote on #51 …

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rsalmeicommented, Jan 9, 2021

Closing the ready issues to reduce the number of opened ones. But fell free to contact me if anything arises!

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