On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 03:39:42PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> wrote: > Furthermore, this also suggests that the 'clear' and 'tput clear' in > Stretch clear the scrollback buffer. But this isn't true either. > 'clear' or 'tput clear' doesn't clear the scrollback buffer. I can > still see the screenful of scrollback. (Please see the screenshots > attached in the original post) > > So 'clear' in Stretch doesn't do what it sets on to do. > > I tried gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal and terminator with the same > observations as above.
If we're collecting data: in stretch, in rxvt-unicode, 'clear' and 'tput clear' do NOT erase the scrollback buffer. In stretch, in xterm, both 'clear' and 'tput clear' DO erase the scrollback buffer. Yet another reason for me to continue using rxvt-unicode. :-)
