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

[Adeodato Simó]

* John Eikenberry [Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:24:00 -0500]:

> 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

Thanks!, this works as I wanted.

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* Marc Lehmann [Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:54:57 +0100]:

> Well, if ctrl-l doesn't do what you want, don't use it?

Well, Ctrl-L has worked fine for me in every terminal emulator I've
used. I'm not very knowledgeable in these matters, and I wouldn't have
been able to say who was at fault.

Thanks,

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