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On 1 December 2010 21:24, Thomas Dickey wrote:By the way, the clearing of the screen on ctrl/L is not done by xterm. (PuTTY does this, in case you're mistaking it for xterm, otherwise I'd assume bash is doing it).
Yep, bash sends '\e[2J' when ^L is pressed. PuTTY's behaviour of interpreting ^L as formfeed is due to its SCOANSI mode being enabled by default. (Strange that the VT100 interpreted ^L, which of course is ASCII formfeed, as linefeed instead.)
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