On 1 December 2010 21:24, Thomas Dickey wrote: > By the way, the clearing of the screen on ctrl/L is not done by xterm. > (PuTTY does this, in case you're mistaking it for xterm, otherwise > I'd assume bash is doing it).
Yep, bash sends '\e[2J' when ^L is pressed. PuTTY's behaviour of interpreting ^L as formfeed is due to its SCOANSI mode being enabled by default. (Strange that the VT100 interpreted ^L, which of course is ASCII formfeed, as linefeed instead.) Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
