Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:05:14 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ^L on console? Message-ID: <20100105000514.GA28599@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20100104214457.GU64905@hoeg.nl> References: <a78074951001041333i5d6ab805mc80a1cb215ac8e61@mail.gmail.com> <20100104214457.GU64905@hoeg.nl>
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--FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:44:57PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Xin, >=20 > * Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> wrote: > > It seems that ^L behaves differently on console. Before login, it > > won't clear the screen and put the cursor to the left-up corner, while > > with login and csh, it would do what it's supposed to do. > >=20 > > This behavior seems to be different from older FreeBSD releases, is it > > related to the recent console driver changes (and is the expected > > behavior)? >=20 > Even though it's different than previous releases of FreeBSD, it is the > expected behaviour. FreeBSD 9 uses an xterm-like terminal emulation. > Xterm doesn't seem to blank the screen when it echoes a ^L. login and > csh do blank the screen, but they do it by hand. That's correct - terminals that clear the screen (without the terminal driver helping) on a control/F are a small minority. (PuTTY and Sun's consoles are the main exceptions, and neither is xterm...). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFLQoI1tIqByHxlDocRAkghAJ9K1x7Zf8cVzdpcYCqIjiH1iEbZpgCeM4OT BItnedDOb3ImqB2zUEr7P40= =e4nN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--
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