Re: clearing the scrollback buffer in mintty

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., clea

Re: clearing the scrollback buffer in mintty

Andy Koppe wrote: Lee said: 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

Re: clearing the scrollback buffer in mintty

Lee said: >> 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

clearing the scrollback buffer in mintty

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 buf