Text selection breaks in funny ways when program keeps printing to console

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Description

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue by running a program that continuously prints to the console while attempting text selection. Investigate the selection rendering path in the terminal codebase, focusing on how selection interacts with ongoing output. Look for race conditions or missing synchronization between the selection module and the renderer.

Tech stack

cpp

Domain

cli

Issue type

Bug

DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.

3

Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.

Half day

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Active

ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.

Needs investigation

Prerequisites

C++concurrency

Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.

40