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RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:28:56 -0000
- Subject: RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.
On 24 February 2006 15:05, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> I generally use a line like this:
>> alias cls='cmd -c cls'
>
> For me, that has to read 'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P
Heh, for me too.
> This was mildly annoying me for a while as well. I finally
> broke down and took a look into it. It looks like the ESC c
> (reset terminal) control works under both RXVT and standard
> "Command" windows. It resets the scrollbar in addition to
> clearing the screen.
>
> So I just changed my "clear screen" alias to:
>
> alias cs='echo -n "\ec"'
For me, that has to read 'echo -e "\033c"' or it doesn't work. :-P~~~
> YMMV, of course.
It certainly does: the ESC-c sequence doesn't reset the scrollback buffer
position for me.
Of course, I'm using a DOS prompt and CYGWIN=notty. YMMV!
cheers,
DaveK
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