sindresorhus / stdin-discarder

Discard stdin input except for Ctrl+C

stdin-discarder

Discard stdin input except for Ctrl+C

This can be useful to prevent stdin input from interfering with stdout output. For example, you are showing a spinner, and if the user presses a key, it would interfere with the spinner, causing visual glitches. This package prevents such problems.

This has no effect on Windows as there is no good way to implement discarding stdin properly there.

This package is used by ora for its discardStdin option.

Install

npm install stdin-discarder

Usage

import stdinDiscarder from 'stdin-discarder';

stdinDiscarder.start();

API

stdinDiscarder.start()

Start discarding stdin.

stdinDiscarder.stop()

Stop discarding stdin.

Related

• hook-std - Hook and modify stdout and stderr

stdin-discarder's Issues

`#ourEmit` is dead code

I was reading this repo's source code, and it took me quite some time to try to understand #ourEmit because this method seems never be used.

After pondering over it for a while, I found this issue and another issue on ora repo. According to these two issues,#ourEmit is indeed unused code, and no fix is made so far.

I think submitting an issue here would be beneficial for people facing similar confusion :)