Feature req: clear scroll buffer action

[alaricljs]

One of the terminal features I use often that I feel would make sense in zellij is clearing a pane's scrollback buffer. I do a lot of multi system management and clear my buffer every time I switch to a new task. This is less work than restarting the terminal (or in zellij replacing the current pane).

[raphCode]

For me, the reset command does the trick.

[alaricljs]

Interesting. While it technically solves my request it takes a full 1s to return whereas a purpose built method should be near instant and would not frustrate the typical impatient user.

[raphCode]

Fair. reset does a lot of things and deliberate calls nanosleep afterwards. Probably terminals were a lot slower when the command was written.
Try clear or tput reset for a faster version.

[raphCode]

Nice, I am putting this in my bashrc right now:
bind -x $'"\C-l":clear;'

This does the requested operation instantly on Ctrl-L.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/29844745

[thekief]

For me clear does not clear the scrollback buffer on macOS (arm64) for whatever reason but reset does the trick. I imagine a built-in function is probably still the best solution in the long-term.

[raphCode]

Interesting. On my machine, tput and clear come from the ncurses package.

In fact, the function you want is already is already integrated in zellij and can be triggered by writing the correct escape sequences to the terminal. For example, like clear is doing that with
^[[H^[[2J^[[3J

I attached the sequence below for convenience, you can cat it in your terminal.
clear.txt