[Mingw-msys] Re: Silly Question: How does one "Clear Screen" in MSYS rxvt?

[Soren A <sor...@fa...>]

Olivier Michel <Oli...@cy...> wrote in 
news:3DF...@cy...:

> I used to press Ctrl-L in the terminal to clear it. However, it doesn't 
> really clear the buffer as echo -ne '\033c'.

That's right, that is the behavior we all see from CTRL-L -- whether in
rxvt or in an ordinary WinDOS console. It only clears the *visible* part
of the buffer. What is worse, in rxvt, using the scrollbar to scroll
back up into the buffer will do no good -- after the bottommost part of
the buffer was cleared, no more is ever going to be. At least in Cygwin
bash we had "clear" which could be combined with CTRL-L (in the native
console) to get the whole buffer blanked. There is just no way in rxvt
-- until now that is.

It just occurs to me that someone secretly watching me trying to clear
the rxvt buffer by that CTRL-L and scrolling method might have been
thinking "Stupid People Tricks" ... ;-)

  Soren A