vue-tui hid the terminal cursor EAGERLY at mount regardless of content, so an
interactive app whose root renders nothing emitted `\x1b[?25l` and hid the
user's cursor. Ink hides LAZILY (log-update, on the first render that writes)
and skips log-update entirely for an empty frame, so an empty app emits zero
cursor escapes.
Remove the eager mount-time hide and rely on log-update's lazy hide. That alone
was insufficient: an empty frame becomes "\n", and the old commit gate
`willRender(outputToRender) || isCursorDirty()` was true for "\n", so log-update
(and its lazy hide) was still reached. Align the outer commit gate to Ink's
exact condition (ink.tsx:1094) `output !== frameState.lastOutput || isCursorDirty()`,
comparing the RAW frame; on an empty first commit both are "" so log-update is
never reached. `willRender` is retained only for the inner BSU/ESU wrap gate.
Verified via PTY: empty app = 0 hides; non-empty = 1 lazy hide; useCursor =
hide-then-show within one render (SHOW last, cursor positioned). alt-screen,
screen-reader, and non-TTY cursor behavior unchanged.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Yunfei He