X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fclear.1;h=21ce43c2c32e5d3e28e3bdd10926bcc0a447cf39;hp=2c4fb22af3ef9ee9ca830d0b44265a229a1bee0c;hb=17c5992a16be94247b83f2bbb9accdd9b7e7bb72;hpb=06078d3fa68db669ed37178c01873546b4b28745 diff --git a/man/clear.1 b/man/clear.1 index 2c4fb22a..21ce43c2 100644 --- a/man/clear.1 +++ b/man/clear.1 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.19 2017/11/18 23:51:59 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.22 2018/07/28 21:45:40 tom Exp $ .TH @CLEAR@ 1 "" .\" these would be fallbacks for DS/DE, .\" but groff changed the meaning of the macros. @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ .de NE .fi .ft R -.in -4 +.ie n .in -4 +.el .in -2 .. .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq .el .ds `` `` @@ -59,7 +60,8 @@ .br .SH DESCRIPTION \fB@CLEAR@\fR clears your screen if this is possible, -including its scrollback buffer (if the extended \*(``E3\*('' capability is defined). +including its scrollback buffer +(if the extended \*(``E3\*('' capability is defined). \fB@CLEAR@\fR looks in the environment for the terminal type given by the environment variable \fBTERM\fP, and then in the @@ -137,7 +139,8 @@ 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. .bP -Again, a few other terminal developers adopted the feature. But the +Again, a few other terminal developers adopted the feature. +But the next relevant step was a change to the \fBclear\fP program in 2013 to incorporate this extension. .bP