Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:08:27 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: <dumb> how to clear scroll-back buffer in console/xterm? Message-ID: <20090122220827.GA85944@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90901221350x4a77e288h6fec595ef10a0e4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90901221249q19142c73rd8ccf164cb07fc5a@mail.gmail.com> <20090122212812.GA85841@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <539c60b90901221350x4a77e288h6fec595ef10a0e4a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:50:09PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
>
> > Ctl-L does it for me in xterm. Might work in the console too.
>
> Just clears the screen, not the scrollback buffer for me. Must be
> some secret setting somewhere...
>
Sorry Steve, I forgot to mention that I've got:
XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \
Ctrl<KeyPress>l : clear-saved-lines()
in ~/.Xdefaults
Regards,
--
Frank
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