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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:44:57 +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:  <20100104214457.GU64905@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <a78074951001041333i5d6ab805mc80a1cb215ac8e61@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a78074951001041333i5d6ab805mc80a1cb215ac8e61@mail.gmail.com>

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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.
>=20
> 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... :-)

--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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