Reset and clear

[Wokoas]

"Reset and clear" shortcut works badly :
prompt disappears
http://imgur.com/5pOQ2Xgl.png

Is it possible to have an equivalent of "CTRL + L" (clear) and "CTRL + U" (clear line) in one shortcut ?
http://imgur.com/L5hIzGxl.png

Thanks

[egmontkob]

(Disclaimer: I'm not Tilix's developer.)

"Reset and clear" is an operation performed by Tilix. It does what it says, so clears the screen (even when you have something else other than your shell as the foreground process). Your shell is unaware of this having happened, and thus doesn't repaint the prompt.

"Ctrl+L" and "Ctrl+U" are operations performed by your shell (and as such, only work when you're at the shell prompt). They have no special meaning to Tilix. Maybe you can configure your shell (e.g. bash and readline) to perform both actions on a single keystroke, I honestly don't know.

It's technically a truly nontrivial question whether Tilix could implement the behavior you're looking for. Your bugreport made me think about it a bit, and filed VTE 84.

[egmontkob]

Nitpicking: Ctrl+U only clears on the left of the cursor in bash, you're looking for Ctrl+L, Ctrl+U and Ctrl+K, I guess.

[Wokoas]

Thanks for your answer.

Nitpicking: Ctrl+U only clears on the left of the cursor in bash, you're looking for Ctrl+L, Ctrl+U and Ctrl+K, I guess.

Yes, or Ctrl-C + Ctrl-L

[egmontkob]

I actually realized that my suggestion doesn't really align with your requirement. It would still be impossible to perform something that's done partially by the terminal emulator on its own, and partially by your shell. E.g. if a "smart clear" (as per the linked bug) is implemented, you'd still be at whichever half-typed command that you have at your prompt.

[gnunn1]

I'm not planning on adding a combined shortcut for this as I don't think it's worth the overhead of maintaining it considering it's not something that seems to be commonly asked for.

[hannes-ucsc]

Just wanted to say that on macOS Terminal does Ctrl-K does the equivalent of Ctrl-L followed by Ctrl-U so there may be a certain class of users that run into this issue.

I work around this by adding

bind '"\C-k": "\C-u\C-l"'

to my .bashrc.