X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fclear.1.html;h=94ba5d55864b3411b8d9d29ddca6c0e661a6f5ba;hp=8581187305b7f57a87aca8d0cad5cf86e685d390;hb=6662c1ccb49cb09d0f2cec2ec6150410a0fd0f7f;hpb=95bcbd4bb8e933c86e6fc4aba9ea1c7fd3d30e3d diff --git a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html index 85811873..94ba5d55 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html +++ b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ clear 1 - +

clear 1

@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@

DESCRIPTION

-       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 @@

SEE ALSO

-       tput(1), terminfo(5)
+       tput(1), terminfo(5), xterm(1).
 
-       This describes ncurses version 6.2 (patch 20211016).
+       This describes ncurses version 6.3 (patch 20220724).