Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:47:55 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ^L on console? Message-ID: <20100104214755.GV64905@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20100104214457.GU64905@hoeg.nl> References: <a78074951001041333i5d6ab805mc80a1cb215ac8e61@mail.gmail.com> <20100104214457.GU64905@hoeg.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: > Hi Xin, > > * Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> wrote: > > It seems that ^L behaves differently on console. Before login, it > > won't clear the screen and put the cursor to the left-up corner, while > > with login and csh, it would do what it's supposed to do. > > > > This behavior seems to be different from older FreeBSD releases, is it > > related to the recent console driver changes (and is the expected > > behavior)? > > Even though it's different than previous releases of FreeBSD, it is the > expected behaviour. FreeBSD 9 uses an xterm-like terminal emulation. > Xterm doesn't seem to blank the screen when it echoes a ^L. login and > csh do blank the screen, but they do it by hand. > > I could change it, but I'm afraid it breaks stuff... :-) As a side note, you can test this yourself by doing this inside an xterm: stty -echoctl cat <press ^L here> -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAktCYgsACgkQ52SDGA2eCwWjEwCfaiQFVJPXSlYXV9VgesWSkJlG WnIAniWM9CS+UAK+7HG0YLgWsWFfmUTC =dFhi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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