[Konsole-devel] [Bug 125222] konsole history not cleaned completely

[gsasha at cs.technion.ac.il]

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------- Additional Comments From gsasha cs technion ac il  2006-04-11 22:40 -------
This used to work correctly with some older versions of KDE (around 3.1 
IIRC). I'm not sure it's a bug with Konsole, maybe it's a problem with 
curses...

I did a check of the gnome-terminal behavior in this regard. It works 
like this:
- if I just press Ctrl-L, it indeed appears to draw one more screenful 
of empty text, increasing the history size.
- however, if I select a "Reset and Clear" option (which clears 
everything including the prompt), and then press a Ctrl+L, the prompt 
reappears on the top of the screen and the history is empty.

I'm not sure about what's the best way to achieve the desired behavior 
of history clearing, but it's obvious that it should work like following:

If I am running a new command and want to concentrate on its output, I 
need the screen history to include *only that command* (and what else 
would I clean the history for?). To this end, I need all the history of 
previous commands to be gone. Preferably, I'd achieve the history 
cleaning with just one key combination (like Ctrl+Shift+L), but two are 
OK as well.

The problem is, currently there is no way at all to get a clear history.