On 12/14/17 4:56 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Version: 6.3-release
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: x86_64-solus-linux-gcc
> Machine Type: x86_64-solus-linux-gnu
>
> Description:
>
> The command "clear-screen" should clear terminal's scrollback buffer as well.
> `clear` from ncurses does so. Seems like clearing scrollback along with
> screen is desired behavior in almost all cases. Another option is to provide
> "clear-screen-and-scrollback" command and let the user to pick what he like.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll take a look at some approaches. Note that this is already pretty
trivial to do in bash:
bind -x '"\ei":"tput E3 2>/dev/null"'
bind "\eI": "\C-l\ei"
This binds ESC-i to clear the scrollback buffer and ESC-I to clear both
the screen and the scrollback buffer.
Chet
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