Non-animated mode for CLI

[expede]

NB: Feature requests will only be considered if they solve a pain

Summary

Problem

Animations break in some shells, like in GH Actions:

Impact

Mostly it just looks unclean 🧼

Solution

Abstract over our animations, and have a toggle for animated or not

[QuinnWilton]

I don't know about Github actions in particular, but one option is to rely on isatty(3) to check whether stdout is attached to a terminal. There's more complex checks you can do with terminfo(5) if you're concerned about the exact capabilities supported by the terminal, but for the purposes of this issue it's probably enough to just disable animations by default if you're not working with a tty.

Explicit flags are nice too though!

Is this still an issue that you're interested in, and if so, do you have a preference on the exact approach?

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/isatty.3.html