Re: Clearing screen when using Vi keybindings on Bash command-line

On 18:19 Fri 14 Mar , Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-03-14 10:02, Srikanth Cherla wrote:
> > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_vi_shortcuts_in_terminal. It's great,
> > except that ^L (Ctrl + l) does not clear screen any more. I tried
> > the two options mentioned in the link but neither of them works. I
> > also tried adding the line
>
> Control+L works in Emacs editing mode (which I tend to prefer for
> general command-line operations), but seems to have strange behavior
> in vi mode. In some contexts, it seems to correctly clear the
> screen; but in other contexts (which I haven't completely sussed
> out), it seems to ignore the control+L. You could try explicitly
> adding
>
> "\C-l": clear-screen
>
> in your ~/.inputrc
>
> > alias ^L='clear'
> >
> > in my .bashrc but that didn't work. Can someone suggest what else I
> > can do?
>
> The alias doesn't work for reasons I'd expect for multiple reasons.
>
> -tim

Just press <Esc> and then CTRL-L, at least it works for me in bash in an
xterm. It does not work in in the insert mode.

Cheers,
Marcin

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