Reprompting on every key stroke

[maranellored]

I've been playing around with inquirer and I love the features!
One annoying bug that I've noticed though is that if the question is longer than my terminal width, then every single keystroke will cause the question to be rendered again in a new line.
This is pretty annoying since it can easily fill up my screen while I'm trying to type an answer to the question.
Is this a known problem? Or are there any workarounds for this issue?

Thanks!

[magmax]

Yes, it is known.

I've not been able to retrieve the screen width, so it is not easy to solve.

Anyway, Inquirer is ready to use another renderers, because I thought in using curses as another option. This would fix the problem. But it is too much work, and very difficult to test automatically.

[maranellored]

Thats fair, but I'm looking at your source code and it looks like you're using blessings-1.5.1 to handle the screen rendering.
From what I see, it looks like blessings-1.6 is out there - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings/
Any idea if that'll fix this issue? It looks like it does have a Terminal.width function to return the width.
If you haven't tried it yet, I'm happy to spend some time looking into it later this week.

[magmax]

If there is a Terminal.width, then I suppose there is no more excuses to not fix this :)

I will try when I have time enough.

Thanks for reporting!

[maranellored]

Oh and I did notice that there is a newer and more up-to date version of blessings - https://github.com/jquast/blessed/tree/master/blessed
It seems to be pretty much backwards compatible with the original blessings library (was forked from it). Maybe that'll be a better choice.

[eggshell]

@magmax @maranellored Any update on this?

[magmax]

I'm afraid not.

[K0K0SHA]

I encountered this issue as well. Overall, I find inquirer slow, glitchy, and counter-intuitive.

EDIT: I also promise to fix this when I get a chance. I'll issue a pull request, hopefully before New Year 2024-2025