/**
 * Alternate-screen mode for temporary full-screen terminal ownership.
 *
 * The dev TUI's transcript deliberately streams into native scrollback (see
 * `live-region.ts`), but a modal viewer wants the whole terminal without
 * fighting the transcript's repaint cycle. Entering the alternate buffer
 * gives the viewer a blank screen it fully owns; leaving restores the
 * transcript exactly where the user left it.
 *
 * Like {@link LiveRegion}, writes go through the terminal's original `write`
 * captured at construction so foreign-output capture never sees the paints.
 */
export interface AltScreenOutput {
    write(chunk: string): boolean;
}
export interface AltScreenEnterOptions {
    /** Interactive subprocesses need the terminal cursor; rendered views do not. */
    cursor?: "hidden" | "visible";
    /** Rendered views use mouse events; inherited subprocesses retain native selection. */
    mouse?: boolean;
}
export declare class AltScreen {
    #private;
    constructor(output: AltScreenOutput);
    get active(): boolean;
    /** Switches to the alternate buffer with view-friendly defaults. */
    enter(options?: AltScreenEnterOptions): void;
    /**
     * Paints a full-screen frame. Each row must already be styled and fit
     * within the terminal width (one row == one screen line); rows beyond the
     * terminal height are dropped. The screen is erased before the rows are
     * written — terminals only erase via explicit sequences, so a shrinking
     * frame would otherwise leave stale text behind.
     *
     * Rows are placed with absolute cursor positions rather than `\n`: a row
     * filling the last column leaves terminals in an autowrap-pending state
     * whose interaction with `\n` varies (immediate-wrap terminals insert a
     * phantom line). Absolute positioning is immune to all of it.
     */
    paint(rows: readonly string[], height: number): void;
    /**
     * Writes an out-of-band sequence (e.g. an OSC 52 clipboard write) through
     * the same captured write the paints use, bypassing foreign-output capture.
     */
    writeRaw(chunk: string): void;
    /** Restores the main screen, cursor, and mouse reporting. */
    exit(): void;
}