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bug#31743: 27.0.50; [feature request] add command to ERC to erase scroll
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#31743: 27.0.50; [feature request] add command to ERC to erase scrollback text |
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Sat, 13 Jul 2019 05:45:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jonathan Kyle Mitchell <kyle@jonathanmitchell.org> writes:
> A recent discussion[1] in help-gnu-emacs revealed that a user
> expected ERC's /CLEAR command (i.e. erc-cmd-CLEAR) to erase the buffer
> contents instead of just recentering the display.
>
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2018-06/msg00041.html
>
> I see two options to handle this:
> 1) Modify the existing erc-cmd-CLEAR command to also erase the buffer
> contents.
> 2) Add a new command to erase the buffer contents and keep the existing
> CLEAR command that just clears the window by recentering the text to be
> above the window, preserving the scrollback text.
I think 1) makes more sense, because C-l is pretty easily available,
while deleting the buffer contents is a bit more work (since it has
read-only text).
But on the other hand... I can't really imagine anybody using /clear
now, but perhaps this would be too surprising a change?
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