* demerphq <[email protected]> [2010-11-28 11:50]:
> On 25 October 2010 21:25, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It almost seems like half my .bashrc is unbreak-me-harder
>> crud.
>>
>> My very most favourite recent addition is
>>
>>     bind -x '"\C-l": clear'
>>
>> which ultimately goes all the way back to how stupidly
>> terminals were bolted onto the side of Unix. Excuse me while
>> I bang my head on this desk.
>
> On one hand im happy that I havent encountered whatever it is
> that makes this useful.
>
> On the other hand im worried I wont know which
> unbreak-me-harder I will need to know.... :-)

Under some combinations of PuTTY/urxvt/SSH/whathaveyou (I never
got as far as figuring out what exactly is going on), hitting
Ctrl-L in bash won't clear the screen as I'm used to. I got tired
of typing `clear` and spent on and off a day or so in total over
some weeks, trying to trying to figure out what caused it and how
to get terminfo, termcap, etc. Eventually I said screw it and
just bound Ctrl-L to invoke `clear`. My brain is cluttered enough
already with absurd esoteric minutiae of this nature.

> While I suppose it is contrary to the purpose of the list to
> try to eliminate hate, it would be nice to see the list...

Sure, feel free to take a look: https://gist.github.com/719322

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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