Clear Screen
Hi, I use bash on Xterm. While working you press Ctrl-L, so that the screen gets cleared and you see the currently line only. But you may want to see the last outputs/prints. However, if you do a Ctrl-L/clear command, these prints go away. In that case, what can you use so that you clear the screen of the prints/outputs from last command. But in case you want to see the last output, you can just go scroll up/pageup. I looked at the bash Xterm manpage but this info is not available. Thanks in Advance, Ajay -- 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/
Re: Clear Screen
On 1 December 2010 11:34, Ajay Jain wrote: I use bash on Xterm. While working you press Ctrl-L, so that the screen gets cleared and you see the currently line only. But you may want to see the last outputs/prints. However, if you do a Ctrl-L/clear command, these prints go away. In that case, what can you use so that you clear the screen of the prints/outputs from last command. But in case you want to see the last output, you can just go scroll up/pageup. I looked at the bash Xterm manpage but this info is not available. Yep, looks like xterm doesn't push the screen content into the scrollback when clearing the screen, and I can't see an option for it either. You may want to try mintty, which does do what you expect (and which doesn't require X). 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/
Re: Clear Screen
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Ajay Jain wrote: Hi, I use bash on Xterm. While working you press Ctrl-L, so that the screen gets cleared and you see the currently line only. But you may want to see the last outputs/prints. However, if you do a Ctrl-L/clear command, these prints go away. In that case, what can you use so that you clear the screen of the prints/outputs from last command. But in case you want to see the last output, you can just go scroll up/pageup. I looked at the bash Xterm manpage but this info is not available. The closest I recall offhand is the xterm tiXtraScroll resource (which would be useful if you were asking about running vi, etc). But a screen-clear is done without causing any scrolling action. 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). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- 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/
Re: Clear Screen
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/
Re: Clear Screen
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: 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.) yes - it used to be that only printers did form-feeds, and terminals did not. See my comment about a repaginator here: http://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- 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/
