Package: darcs
Version: 2.0.2-2
Severity: wishlist

For example, if my screen has the following on it

    [EMAIL PROTECTED] darcs push soy:Preferences
    Sun Aug  3 22:23:07 EST 2008  Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
      * Ignore Debian BTS headers.
    Shall I push this patch? (1/29)  [ynWsfvpxdaqjk], or ? for help: y
    Sun Aug  3 22:23:51 EST 2008  Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
      * Don't hard-wrap in IRC.
    Shall I push this patch? (2/29)  [ynWsfvpxdaqjk], or ? for help:

Then I expect ^L to issue a "clear screen" terminal command, then
print the current information and the prompt, resulting in

    Sun Aug  3 22:23:51 EST 2008  Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
      * Don't hard-wrap in IRC.
    Shall I push this patch? (2/29)  [ynWsfvpxdaqjk], or ? for help:

This makes it MUCH easier for me to focus on only the information
relating to the current question -- because the rest is no longer
on-screen.

Note that in real cases, there's a lot more scrollback for ^L to clear;
the benefit of ^L is less obvious in the shortened example above.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages darcs depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3               7.18.2-5          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgmp3c2              2:4.2.2+dfsg-3    Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080713-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages darcs recommends:
ii  msmtp-mta [mail-transport-age 1.4.15-1   light SMTP client with support for

Versions of packages darcs suggests:
pn  darcs-server                  <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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