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Re: clearing the screen without losing anything?

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From: Seth Kurtzberg <seth@xxxxxxx>
To: Andy Spiegl <zsh.Andy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: clearing the screen without losing anything?
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:46:17 -0500
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That's an xterm issue.  xterm does have a logging facility built in, and it wouldn't be impossible to clear, read some part of the log, and redisplay it.  I suspect, however, that the result would be exactly what was on the screen before you cleared it, so it probably won't solve your problem.  Which brings to mind:  What is your problem, specifically?  Perhaps someone will have an idea about how to solve it.

Seth

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:13:49 +0100
Andy Spiegl <zsh.Andy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was just wondering whether it's possible to clear the screen (with Ctrl-l)
> such that the screen contents is pushed into the terminal's (i.e. xterm)
> scrollback buffer.
> 
> Uhm, I am not even sure whether that's a zsh or xterm issue?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Andy.
> 
> -- 
>  If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times,
>  does he become disoriented?       (George Carlin, US comedian)
> 

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Seth Kurtzberg <seth@xxxxxxx>
Hardware and Software Engineer

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