diff --git a/pkg/commands/oscommands/pty_windows.go b/pkg/commands/oscommands/pty_windows.go
index e645ae627..ff707c519 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/oscommands/pty_windows.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/oscommands/pty_windows.go
@@ -204,7 +204,8 @@ func (p *winPty) Close() error {
 // slave closes on child exit, but ConPTY keeps the pipe alive until we call
 // ClosePseudoConsole explicitly. Without doing that on child exit, the
 // scanner in pkg/tasks.NewCmdTask would block forever on the next read and
-// the post-content view never gets cleared (FlushStaleCells never fires).
+// the render would never reach its end of input, so the new content would
+// never be swapped in.
 func startWaiter(proc *os.Process, p *winPty) func() error {
 	done := make(chan struct{})
 	var waitErr error
diff --git a/pkg/gocui/view.go b/pkg/gocui/view.go
index fe01e50ca..dba71ab52 100644
--- a/pkg/gocui/view.go
+++ b/pkg/gocui/view.go
@@ -1248,17 +1248,6 @@ func (v *View) Reset() {
 	v.offscreen = nil
 }
 
-// This is for when we've done a restart for the sake of avoiding a flicker and
-// we've reached the end of the new content to display: we need to clear the remaining
-// content from the previous round. We do this by setting v.viewLines to nil so that
-// we just render the new content from v.buf.lines directly
-func (v *View) FlushStaleCells() {
-	v.writeMutex.Lock()
-	defer v.writeMutex.Unlock()
-
-	v.clearViewLines()
-}
-
 // BeginOffscreenRender starts building a re-render into an off-screen buffer.
 // Until SwapInOffscreenRender promotes it, writes go to that buffer and the
 // displayed buffer — what every reader sees — is left as it was. This is how an
diff --git a/pkg/gui/tasks_adapter.go b/pkg/gui/tasks_adapter.go
index f2f567a75..5e5295639 100644
--- a/pkg/gui/tasks_adapter.go
+++ b/pkg/gui/tasks_adapter.go
@@ -170,8 +170,6 @@ func (gui *Gui) getManager(view *gocui.View) *tasks.ViewBufferManager {
 
 					view.SetOrigin(0, newOriginY)
 				}
-
-				view.FlushStaleCells()
 			},
 			func() {
 				view.SetOrigin(0, 0)