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by swiley 3542 days ago
A far better solution would be to just not draw UI elements on top of each other. I would like to point out that CLIs don't have this problem.
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CLIs generally aren't highly dynamic and offer only limited screen-addressability. It's possible though for, say, a rapidly updating CLI list to get away from you.

The other element, though, is that your selector point in a CLI is very frequently (though not always) keyboard-driven, and tends to stay with the item it's on, rather than drift up or down as elements are added or removed other than by direct user control.