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[Request] Disable continuous terminal rewriting in CI #168

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@JoshuaKGoldberg

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Spinning out from JoshuaKGoldberg/create-typescript-app#859: when running Clack's spinners in a project in CI (e.g. GitHub Actions), you get a ton of CI logs:

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◇  ✅ Passed migrating repository structure.
[25](https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/create-typescript-app/actions/runs/6264408991/job/17011040698?pr=858#step:5:26)l│
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Screenshot of the preceding code block in CI, showing many "Cleaning up files.." notices

Describe the solution you'd like

Could we an option to disable terminal animations, so each line is only logged once? Ideally that option would default to auto-detecting whether the environment is a CI one.

Describe alternatives you've considered

User-land code could avoid spinners in CI by doing the detection themselves. That's a lot of work for each consuming project though.

Additional context

I'd be happy to implement this - though might not have time soon.

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