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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., clears the screen and
> scrollback buffer.

Fixed in 0.3.7.

Andy

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