Re: Clear Screen

[Bob Proulx]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> ... I can see where his question is coming from.  If you're on an
> rxvt or something, with a reasonably-sized scrollback buffer, and
> you do a "tput clear" or its equivalent, you only lose the lines
> that were on the visible part of the terminal at that time -- the
> rest of the scrollback buffer is still there.

XTerm behaves the same, FWIW.  Personally when I want that I just hold
down the Enter key and push everything up and off the top.

> Perhaps the best solution for the original question is to send ${LINES:-24}
> newline characters to the terminal instead of clearing it.  That should
> push the information that's currently visible "up" into the scrollback
> buffer, where he wants it to be.

That seems possible.  Create a routine that does exactly that and then
bind it to the clear-screen function currently attached to C-l.  Then
it would work as you describe.  I have never done that, don't know
how, but it seems reasonable to me. :-)

Bob