Re: [Bug-readline] Command "clear-screen" should clear scrollback buffer (if supported) as well

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/14/17 4:56 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Version: 6.3-release
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: x86_64-solus-linux-gcc
> Machine Type: x86_64-solus-linux-gnu
> 
> Description:
> 
> The command "clear-screen" should clear terminal's scrollback buffer as well. 
> `clear` from ncurses does so. Seems like clearing scrollback along with 
> screen is desired behavior in almost all cases. Another option is to provide 
> "clear-screen-and-scrollback" command and let the user to pick what he like.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I'll take a look at some approaches.  Note that this is already pretty
trivial to do in bash:

bind -x '"\ei":"tput E3 2>/dev/null"'
bind "\eI": "\C-l\ei"

This binds ESC-i to clear the scrollback buffer and ESC-I to clear both
the screen and the scrollback buffer.

Chet

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