Terminal "clear" bug

[paulkunitsky]

• VSCode Version: 1.17.1
• OS Version: Windows 10

Fix terminal "clear" bug.
Terminal aint cleared, but caret moves to top.

[mxschmitt]

How do you try to clear the Terminal? I don't see any button which should have the ability to do this.
The trash icon is to kill the terminal, the x icon to close the terminal and the arrow up to maximize it.

[omril1]

Could you provide more information about it? Are you using a command? If so, on which terminal is that?

[coreh]

How do you try to clear the Terminal? I don't see any button which should have the ability to do this.
The trash icon is to kill the terminal, the x icon to close the terminal and the arrow up to maximize it.

@maxibanki Cmd+K (Or Ctrl+K on Windows)

[mxschmitt]

Can you reproduce it?
In my environment:

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.17.0-insider (7ac1f1e, 2017-09-30T05:06:21.234Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 6.1.7601

It works without any problems.

[paulkunitsky]

I'm using embedded git bash terminal and command "clear" to work with node.js. I have a habbit to clean the log, so I noticed that. I faced that problem after the latest update (1.17.1).
I did run VS code with "--no-extensions" flag. It didn't solve the problem.

screenshots
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[mklement0]

There are several related issues:

• Apparently, using shell-native cls / Clear-Host only clears the current screen (one screen's worth of output), while preserving the rest of the scrollback buffer.

• By contrast, workbench.action.terminal.clear clears bot the current screen and the scrollback buffer. There is currently no UI element to invoke this command (though the suggestion has been made - see Integrated Terminal: add "Clear Console" button #30077), so a keyboard shortcut is required.

• Ctrl+K should work on Windows, but apparently doesn't as of 1.18 (even though the UI suggests it should; observed on W7x64); workaround: place the default definition at the end of your keybindings.json file.

  {
    "key": "ctrl+k",
    "command": "workbench.action.terminal.clear",
    "when": "terminalFocus"
  }

[cnavarro16]

Can confirm that adding the default definition for workbench.action.terminal.clear at the end of the keybindings.json file did the trick as per @mklement0's comment. This is on windows 10 running 1.18.