On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:44:57PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Xin, > > * Xin LI <delphij_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > It seems that ^L behaves differently on console. Before login, it > > won't clear the screen and put the cursor to the left-up corner, while > > with login and csh, it would do what it's supposed to do. > > > > This behavior seems to be different from older FreeBSD releases, is it > > related to the recent console driver changes (and is the expected > > behavior)? > > Even though it's different than previous releases of FreeBSD, it is the > expected behaviour. FreeBSD 9 uses an xterm-like terminal emulation. > Xterm doesn't seem to blank the screen when it echoes a ^L. login and > csh do blank the screen, but they do it by hand. That's correct - terminals that clear the screen (without the terminal driver helping) on a control/F are a small minority. (PuTTY and Sun's consoles are the main exceptions, and neither is xterm...). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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