X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fclear.1.html;h=d2d854415146dc821a3c20efed69eae72d0a6520;hp=7a310c6dbe63c73b3efb285666d66e175abd375c;hb=a6eb34d7fec8170a8715f9e53ca2f96452dd30dd;hpb=89730563d0a660d4ddd83d28660dc23c6d3f0bed diff --git a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html index 7a310c6d..d2d85441 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html +++ b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html @@ -71,10 +71,10 @@
-T type - indicates the type of terminal. Normally this option is unneces- - sary, because the default is taken from the environment variable - TERM. If -T is specified, then the shell variables LINES and COL- - UMNS will also be ignored. + indicates the type of terminal. Normally this option is + unnecessary, because the default is taken from the environment + variable TERM. If -T is specified, then the shell variables LINES + and COLUMNS will also be ignored. -V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits. The options are as follows: @@ -94,20 +94,21 @@ /usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2> /dev/null exit - In 1989, when Keith Bostic revised the BSD tput command to make it sim- - ilar to the AT&T tput, he added a shell script for the clear command: + In 1989, when Keith Bostic revised the BSD tput command to make it + similar to the AT&T tput, he added a shell script for the clear + command: exec tput clear The remainder of the script in each case is a copyright notice. - The ncurses clear command began in 1995 by adapting the original BSD + The ncurses clear command began in 1995 by adapting the original BSD clear command (with terminfo, of course). The E3 extension came later: - o In June 1999, xterm provided an extension to the standard control - sequence for clearing the screen. Rather than clearing just the + 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 printf '\033[2J' @@ -116,24 +117,24 @@ printf '\033[3J' - This is documented in XTerm Control Sequences as a feature origi- - nating with xterm. + This is documented in XTerm Control Sequences as a feature + 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, + 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, although it was cited in the Red Hat bug report (#683733) which led to the change. - o Again, a few other terminal developers adopted the feature. But + o Again, a few other terminal developers adopted the feature. But the next relevant step was a change to the clear program in 2013 to incorporate this extension. - o In 2013, the E3 extension was overlooked in tput with the "clear" - parameter. That was addressed in 2016 by reorganizing tput to + o In 2013, the E3 extension was overlooked in tput with the "clear" + parameter. That was addressed in 2016 by reorganizing tput to share its logic with clear and tset. @@ -141,15 +142,15 @@ Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents tset or reset. - The latter documents tput, which could be used to replace this utility - either via a shell script or by an alias (such as a symbolic link) to + The latter documents tput, which could be used to replace this utility + either via a shell script or by an alias (such as a symbolic link) to run tput as clear.
tput(1), terminfo(5) - This describes ncurses version 6.2 (patch 20200425). + This describes ncurses version 6.2 (patch 20201219).