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RE: How to clear the screen with bash ?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: How to clear the screen with bash ?
- From: "Howarth, Richard" <rhowarth at sgb dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:57:31 +0100
I've just had a play using bash on Linux, and if it works the same way
then "^L" only works for me if I have emacs style editing switched on
("set -o emacs"). I'm more comfortable with vi commands so use "set -o
vi", in which case "^L" only clears the screen if I first escape to
command mode.
I think the "^L" in this case is working like the refresh screen would
in the editor, so that if you are part way through a command and type
"^L" the command is redisplayed as well as the screen being cleared.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergey Okhapkin [mailto:sos@prospect.com.ru]
> Sent: 02 July 1998 20:22
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com; 'Michael Hirmke'
> Subject: RE: How to clear the screen with bash ?
>
>
> Michael Hirmke wrote:
> > >> MIKE-[/home/mh]_$^L
> > >> bash.exe: Got 12
> > >> : command not found
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >
> > >1. You TERM variable is not set to "linux".
> > >2. Missing /etc/termcap with linux terminal description.
> >
> > Neither nor.
> > I have TERM=linux and an appropriate /etc/termcap.
> >
>
> Really strange... "Stock" b19 bash, any B19 dll, /etc/termcap from
> termcap-1.3 (just tried with b19 termcap) - single ctrl-l
> (without CR)
> clears the screen. NTS 4.0. "tty" setting doesn't matter.
>
> --
> Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
> Moscow, Russia
>
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