Major issues fixed:
- Rich printed directly to stdout causing visible flicker on every redraw
- get_key() toggled raw mode per keypress causing glitches and slowness
- No alternate screen buffer — output contaminated terminal scrollback
Rewrite approach:
- Use alternate screen buffer (ESC[?1049h) for clean enter/exit
- Persistent raw mode for entire session instead of per-keypress toggle
- Buffer all Rich renderables during render cycle, flush once in refresh()
- Render to StringIO then write entire frame in single sys.stdout.write()
- Reduced ESC sequence timeout from 50ms to 20ms for snappier response
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>