On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > YA typo. The above should read:
> >
> > alias cs='echo -ne "\ec"'
>
> Yes, this is what you need to do under BASH. I thought I had verified it
> there, but I guess I wasn't getting what I thought I was getting. (I
> mostly use ZSH--at least I knew better than to write "print -n $'\ec'".)
Yes, but "printf '\ec'" works ju-ust fine in bash... :-) And it may work
in zsh, too.
> In fact, under a Command window it looks like this may end up working
> the same as the "clear" command (for me it does at least clear the
> scroll contents). But if you use RXVT (as I do), sending <ESC>-c does a
> much better job than clear.
Do you set your TERM to "rxvt" or "xterm"? The control sequence in the
terminfo database may be wrong if you don't use the native "rxvt" terminal
setting.
> At least I did say YMMV. :-)
> gsw
> P.S. It could also be written 'echo -e "\ec\c"', which
> has an odd alliterative appeal (to me). :-)
Right.
Igor
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