X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fclear.1;h=a79bdf15bc1b8113845d76ec9dec04d7e8a4c298;hp=16914dbb96ca8e5132ebdc958eb2306535dadc7f;hb=fae162795e065e5901068152e91f2962b6b247f3;hpb=cd142df6d9934f1bda19f5b968cc666291be5072 diff --git a/man/clear.1 b/man/clear.1 index 16914dbb..a79bdf15 100644 --- a/man/clear.1 +++ b/man/clear.1 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey * +.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 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 * @@ -26,14 +27,14 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.18 2017/10/07 21:30:17 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.23 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $ .TH @CLEAR@ 1 "" .\" these would be fallbacks for DS/DE, .\" but groff changed the meaning of the macros. .de NS -.ie \n(.sp +.ie n .sp .el .sp .5 -.ie \n(.in +4 +.ie n .in +4 .el .in +2 .nf .ft C \" Courier @@ -41,14 +42,16 @@ .de NE .fi .ft R -.in -4 +.ie n .in -4 +.el .in -2 .. .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq .el .ds `` `` .ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq .el .ds '' '' .de bP -.IP \(bu 4 +.ie n .IP \(bu 4 +.el .IP \(bu 2 .. .ds n 5 .SH NAME @@ -58,7 +61,8 @@ .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 @@ -136,7 +140,8 @@ 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