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Old 17th August 2012
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Default "Ctrl+l" doesnot clear xterm

I am used to press "Ctrl+l" to clear xterm window. But it seems not to work in OpenBSD 5.1 where i have to input `clear`.


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I'm pretty sure ^L only clears the entire screen in readline(3) applications (look for "clear-screen" in the man page). So my guess is that xterm does not use readline, which probably makes sense since readline itself is GNU software.
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Old 20th August 2012
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But ^L works on FreeBSD's xterm.

$pkg_info -Qx xterm
xterm-276_1:Terminal emulator for the X Window System
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Old 20th August 2012
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Ksh doesn't use readline, while bash does. Change shell from ksh to bash and ^L will clear the screen in xterm.
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It also seems to require a capable TERM setting. E.g., I find it works with TERM=xterm-color, but not inside tmux where TERM=screen.
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It also seems to require a capable TERM setting. E.g., I find it works with TERM=xterm-color, but not inside tmux where TERM=screen.
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$ echo $TERM
xterm-color
^L still doesnot work ! Maybe @denta is right, i need to use bash instead of ksh.


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^L still doesnot work ! Maybe @denta is right, i need to use bash instead of ksh.
denta is certainly right, the ^L thing is a default binding of GNU readline. To confirm that see readline's manpage and look for the clear-screen function. So using readline, such as through bash, is necessary if ksh doesn't use it.

What I was saying is that, in addition to readline, the terminal must be capable.

And now further clarification. Yesterday when it didn't work for me with TERM=screen, I was using Linux. Today, using NetBSD, it does work with TERM=screen. I take from this that while the terminal must still be capable, yet terminals with the same name may have subtle differences from one implementation to another that may or may not break this. What happens on the latest OpenBSD I don't know but it's worth having in mind if you should try it.
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Old 22nd August 2012
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Thanks IdOp !
On my freebsd + tmux + csh, ^L works with TERM set to "xterm-256color"

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