resetting saved lines in an Xterm?

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Wed Nov 15 13:25:40 EST 2006


Michael ODonnell wrote:
> I'm using "the" xterm (and, no - not in the way that
> Karl Rove had access to "the" poll numbers) and I
> claim that there's nothing funky going on with my rig:
>
>  ######## fleagle:~ 1468---> xterm -version
>  XFree86 4.3.99.5(179)
>  ######## fleagle:~ 1469---> type xterm
>  xterm is hashed /usr/bin/xterm
>  ######## fleagle:~ 1470---> rpm -qf /usr/bin/xterm
>  xterm-179-6.EL3
>  ######## fleagle:~ 1471---> echo $TERM
>  xterm
>
> ...and although that "reset" app (which is basically just
> the "tset" app) does send an escape sequence that clears
> the screen and puts certain things back to their initial
> states, it definitely doesn't clear the scrollback history,
> which is still viewable via Shift+PageUp or the mousewheel
> or the menubar slider thingy as always.
>
> FWIW, I've been using "the" xterm (as opposed to color
> xterm or rcvxt [sp?]  or the Gnome thingy or the KDE
> thingy, etc...)  and this has always been true, AFAIK.
>   
http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_107

Does this help?

-Mark


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