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Mathieu L. (lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net) wrote [08.08.12 05:25]:
> Hi all,
> 
> I agree with the previous points so I'm in favor of no-clear by default.
> A suggestion however: an option that controls this behaviour (whether or
> not to automatically clear screen after each command), that can be set
> to "on" or "off" and which is set to "off" by default?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mathieu.

That's an idea, but I have just one question: where does the option get
set? Boot time option? In a menu system setting options of this nature
make sense, but there won't be the issue of clearing the screen in a
menu. I'm not sure if there's a sensible way of setting options in a
guided shell prompt. Of course, we can provide command-line switches
(like -c for --clear-screen or similar), but that's not quite the same
thing.

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Justin "flux_control" Boffemmyer
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