@nixCraft

Tried it. It didn't clear the screen.

#terminals #FormFeed #EraseDisplay #UnixShells #ECMA48

@lemgandi

Surprisingly, to those of us who grew up with home computers, that's not truly the case.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/593613/5132

#terminals #FormFeed #EraseDisplay #ECMA48

Re: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/thrig.me/blog/2023/06/18/formfeed-rabbithole.gmi

There's even more rabbit-hole than this.

For example: It's largely a myth that Form Feed clears the screen, or even ever did, despite what reams of introductions to programming in C say.

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#FormFeed #ECMA35 #ECMA48 #VDUs #CProgramming

@xahlee \o/ #Perl6 support #FormFeed (^L) in sources.