A means of clearing the scroll buffer in an OSX Terminal.
I was looking for a method of clearing the buffer of the vertical scroll back slider and came across this little Terminal escape snippet I had never seen before:
SO...
Performs a terminal reset, buffer clearance, clear the window, set back to default colours etc... and places prompt at the top.
Neat eh!
Even the builtin Terminal reset command doesn't do that.
(This also works under 'xterm' too.)
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For a long time, when I type man anything on my Mac, both the manpage header fonts and the background was black, so I had to use my mouse to highlight the manpage output to read it. It was really annoying.
The problem was the same both locally or using the terminal and going ssh somewhere.
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I am a VERY basic user here and have been tasked with adding a user to our email system -- we use a squirrelmail interface and I have root passwords etc.
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first off thesis my first post so if i am not in the right forum, i apologize.
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Hi guys and gals...
After much searching on the good ol' internet I could find nothing, so this is the result.
ALthough many people seem to have asked this question no-one seems to have a solution so here we go.
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dwtscrollwindowsetareas
DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(3Dwt)DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(3Dwt)Name
DwtScrollWindowSetAreas - Sets up or adds the window region, and the horizontal or vertical scroll bar widgets to the scroll window widget.
Syntax
void DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(widget, horizontal_scroll_bar, vertical_scroll_bar, work_region)
Widget widget;
Widget horizontal_scroll_bar;
Widget vertical_scroll_bar;
Widget work_region;
Arguments
widget Specifies the scroll window widget ID.
horizontal_scroll_bar
Specifies the scroll bar widget ID for the horizontal scroll bar to be associated with the scroll window widget. You can set or
specify this ID only after creating an instance of the main window widget. The attribute name associated with this argument is
DwtNhorizontalScrollBar.
vertical_scroll_bar
Specifies the scroll bar widget ID for the vertical scroll bar to be associated with the scroll window widget. You can set or
specify this ID only after creating an instance of the main window widget. The attribute name associated with this argument is
DwtNverticalScrollBar.
work_region
Specifies the widget ID for the window to be associated with the scroll window work area. You can set or specify this ID only
after you create an instance of the main window widget.
Description
The DwtScrollWindowSetAreas function adds or changes a window work region and a horizontal or vertical scroll bar widget to the scroll win-
dow widget for the application. You must call this function before the scroll window widget is realized, that is, before calling the X
intrinsics function XtRealizeWidget. Each widget is optional and may be passed as NULL.
See AlsoDwtScrollWindow(3Dwt), DwtWindow(3Dwt),
Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding
DwtScrollWindowSetAreas(3Dwt)