Re: [PATCH] Add function eshell/clear to clear current eshell buffer

[vibhavp]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> As someone who was more than once in a situation where I would give
> half of my kingdom for an opportunity to look again at the contents of
> the screen I just "clear"ed

Most shells do something list this, and moves the prompt the top of the
window. Elisp has something similar with (recenter-top-bottom), but
eshell overrides this by going to the window's bottom again.

> how about filling the window with blank
> lines instead, so that the old contents are out of sight, but still
> reachable?  Would that make sense?

Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that :(. Although, I think that
can be done with getting the number of lines between (point-max) and the
top of the window, and then inserting these many newlines.

-- 
Vibhav Pant
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