On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 09:53:35PM -0400, David Mertz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:36 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> > > Well, in terminals like bash, `clear` does not really delete the
> > > previous input. It simply move the scroll so the first line of the
> > > input is the current input.
> >
> > That's not actually correct: in bash, `clear` actually deletes the
> > scrollback buffer too.
> >
>
> I never noticed that, since my "terminal" is `tmux` (running inside a Linux
> terminal). In that case, `clear` might clear the underlying terminal
> scrollback buffer, but it does not clear the tmux scrollback buffer. The
> `screen` terminal multiplexer is similar.
Oh yeah; I forgot about screen and tmux.
I just tried it in screen, and `os.system('clear')` does not clear the
scrollback used by screen.
I think that if we go ahead with this, we shouldn't allow lack
of support for screen and/or tmux to stand in the way. A 99%
solution is better than a 0% solution :-)
> All of which suggests to me that doing the "same thing" in a platform
> neutral way is not an insignificant effort.
Indeed.
--
Steve
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