Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/24/11:04:38
Ugh, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>... Reformatted.
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Richard Quadling wrote:
> On 24/02/06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) <gsw<at>lovespam<dot>com> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>, domain name notwithstanding.
> > For me, that has to read 'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P
> >
> > This was mildly annoying me for a while as well. I finally
> > broke down and took a look into it. It looks like the ESC c
> > (reset terminal) control works under both RXVT and standard
> > "Command" windows. It resets the scrollbar in addition to
> > clearing the screen.
> >
> > So I just changed my "clear screen" alias to:
> >
> > alias cs='echo -n "\ec"'
> >
> > YMMV, of course.
>
> With that alias, I get ...
>
> RichardQ AT richardquadling ~
> $ alias cs='echo -n "\ec"'
>
> RichardQ AT richardquadling ~
> $ cs
> \ec
> RichardQ AT richardquadling ~
> $
>
> I'm using the standard bash shell. The shortcut icon is the Cygwin logo.
YA typo. The above should read:
alias cs='echo -ne "\ec"'
HTH,
Igor
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