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Re: clearing the scrollback buffer in mintty
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:33:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: clearing the scrollback buffer in mintty
- References: <49BC5BB0.8020707@veritech.com>
Lee D. Rothstein:
> Dave Korn "piped":
>
>> For gui consoles, use
>
>> ?alias cls='echo -e "\033c"'
>
>> which does clear the scrollback buffer.
>
> Thanks Dave, this works on 'xterm' but not on 'mintty'.
>
> On 'mintty' it does a 'clear' (i.e., clears the screen),
> rather than a 'cls' (i.e., clears the screen and
> scrollback buffer.
Fixed in 0.3.7.
Andy
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