[Python-ideas] Suggestion: Clear screen command for the REPL

eryk sun eryksun at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 10:13:33 EDT 2016


On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>   !cls #windows

cmd's built-in cls command doesn't clear just the screen, like a VT100
\x1b[1J. It clears the console's entire scrollback buffer. Unix
`clear` may also work like that. With GNOME Terminal in Linux, `clear`
leaves a single screen in the scrollback buffer.


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