X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fclear.1.html;h=ec1981b9f637ad96b8348425186559e1c015ff59;hb=87154b424ea0f67c2965d00e861ddfb134082d94;hp=cc5b4e817130f444cd1531e279a44629c170e778;hpb=a816c8dae437106bbf1661304240ff568ae3efef;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html index cc5b4e81..ec1981b9 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html +++ b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
- clear clears your screen if this is possible, including its scrollback - buffer (if the extended "E3" capability is defined). clear looks in - the environment for the terminal type given by the environment variable - TERM, and then in the terminfo database to determine how to clear the - screen. + clear clears your terminal's screen if this is possible, including the + terminal's scrollback buffer (if the extended "E3" capability is + defined). clear looks in the environment for the terminal type given + by the environment variable TERM, and then in the terminfo database to + determine how to clear the screen. clear writes to the standard output. You can redirect the standard output to a file (which prevents clear from actually clearing the @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The E3 extension came later: - o In June 1999, xterm provided an extension to the standard control + o In June 1999, xterm provided an extension to the standard control sequence for clearing the screen. Rather than clearing just the visible part of the screen using @@ -118,14 +118,14 @@ printf '\033[3J' This is documented in XTerm Control Sequences as a feature - originating with xterm. + originating with xterm. o A few other terminal developers adopted the feature, e.g., PuTTY in 2006. o In April 2011, a Red Hat developer submitted a patch to the Linux kernel, modifying its console driver to do the same thing. The - Linux change, part of the 3.0 release, did not mention xterm, + Linux change, part of the 3.0 release, did not mention xterm, although it was cited in the Red Hat bug report (#683733) which led to the change. @@ -148,9 +148,9 @@
- tput(1), terminfo(5) + tput(1), terminfo(5), xterm(1). - This describes ncurses version 6.3 (patch 20211021). + This describes ncurses version 6.3 (patch 20220219).