On 10/18/2010 9:53 AM, Jeff Rancier wrote:
GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2003-03-27 on buffy
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(24)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58
Microsoft Windows XP Pro - Version 2002, SP3

The 'clear' work's  in a Cygwin Bash session,

c106...@usliny2r86krp8 ~
$ alias  clear
alias clear='cat ~/.cls'

c106...@usliny2r86krp8 ~
$ less  .cls
ESC[2J
.cls (END)

But doesn't  within Emacs:

C-z runs the command  shell
    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `shell'.
(shell&optional BUFFER)

All I get within an  Emacs shell session is the following, without clearing the
screen.  Is there  some envionment variable I need to set here?


bash-3.2$  clear
[2J
bash-3.2$

I'm not sure what you're expecting here. Do you want emacs to delete what's in the *shell* buffer? Or just scroll it so that nothing is visible but the prompt? FWIW, typing 'clear' in an emacs shell buffer under Linux doesn't have any visible effect either. (Here it runs /usr/bin/clear.) So I don't think this has anything to do with Cygwin.

Ken

Ken

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