Issues: triple-click selection; pointer for scrollback; scrollback and Ctrl-L

[John Eikenberry]

Adeodato Simó wrote:

> * Adeodato Simó [Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:37:47 +0100]:
> 
> Ping? Any ideas about this #3 issue, which is the most important one for
> me? Thanks in advance.
> 
> > 3. Losing scrollback with Ctrl-L.
> 
> > If I type Ctrl-L to clear the screen (or run `clear`), the lines that
> > were visible in the screen prior to clearing are not added to the
> > scrollback buffer, i.e. they are lost. This can be checked by running:
> 
> >     % yes hello | head -n $LINES; yes bye | head -n $LINES; clear
> 
> > If you then scroll back, you will see no more than one "bye".

If you use zsh this works for ctrl-l

# clear screen (w/ ctrl-l) with screen contents pushed into terminal's
# scrollback buffer. The clear-screen name is necessary.
clear-screen() { zle -I;repeat $((LINES-2)) echo;clear }
zle -N clear-screen

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John Eikenberry
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