Hi,

> On 14 Oct 2017, at 15:52, 蔡瑋倫 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. From the perspective of keyboard typing, "cls" is much easier to type than 
> "clear."

what is speaking against using Ctrl+L ?

> 2. The corresponding command under Windows is "cls." By googling for some 
> related materials, I have figured out that so many people asked for alias for 
> this command.

Everybody is free to add any desired alias. If using Ctrl+L is unpleasant, 
because MS DOS commands are wanted, why don't you add it yourself? Not 
everybody migrated from MS DOS or DR DOS to an UNIX alike operating system, 
some of us are native UNIX like operating system users or they used e.g. DR DOS 
decades ago and when migrating to Linux they learned a few basic, such as the 
most important shortcuts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline is 
providing by default.

> 3. Adding alias, instead of renaming, will not affect the backward 
> compatibility of the whole system.

Emulating MS DOS commands isn't good for anything. If you migrate from one 
country to another, than it's wise to learn the language of the country you 
chose to live, instead of continuing to speak the language of the country you 
previously lived.

> ll='ls -l', or not?

I don't know if this alias is a default for Ubuntu, however, while I'm using 
many aliases, I never ever would use 'ls -l', but other than for 'cls', there 
is no default shortcut for 'ls -l', this makes a big difference.

Regards,
Ralf
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