clear command does not work

[avylove]

The clear command does not seem to function. I'm not sure if this is a xterm.js bug or a spyder-terminal bug.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Launch terminal

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected:

[avylove@localhost Project]$      

Actual:

Loading...                              
[avylove@localhost Project]$ cd /home/avram/Desktop/Audrey      
[avylove@localhost Project]$ clear
[avylove@localhost Project]$

Please provide any additional information below
Neither clear nor reset commands seem to do anything. I tried changing the clearTerm() function from to user term.clear(), which removed the clear command from the terminal, but still didn't clear the terminal.

Versions and main components

• Terminal Version: Included
• Spyder Version: 0.1.2
• Python Version: 3.5.3
• Operating system: Fedora 25

[ccordoba12]

@avylove, thanks for opening the issue.

[andfoy]

@avylove Does PR #78 fixes your problem?

[avylove]

It doesn't seem to. Both this version and the original one work fine when launched outside of Spyder, but don't work both during initialization and if I open additional terminals once Spyder is up.

[andfoy]

Does the console output keeps the same?

[avylove]

Yes, same output.

[ccordoba12]

No, the idea is to clean all console output and leave only a single prompt on it. That's how %clear works on Linux/Mac, but does not on Windows. El 05/07/17 a las 16:08, Edgar Andrés Margffoy Tuay escribió:

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[avylove]

It seems like something about the Spyder integration interferes with the clear command. I'm not sure it's a timing issue because the clear command does not clear the screen even after I can interact with the console, yet it works fine when the server is run independently and the console is accessed through Chrome.

[andfoy]

Does this happens only with the first console, or does it also happens with new terminal tabs?

[avylove]

New terminal tabs as well

[andfoy]

@avylove Does PR #93 fixes your problem?

[avylove]

Well I have mixed news. Turns out the issue must have been in Spyder because I don't have the issue with 0.1.2 when I bootstrap Spyder 3.x. Wish I had thought to do that before. I found this out because I installed the spyder-terminal master branch and didn't have the spyder-terminal plugin available in Spyder, so I thought maybe there was a dependency on the latest. Well it didn't work there either. Not sure what the issue is. How do I see some output?

[andfoy]

Have you tried to open an internal console and see if there is some output there?

[avylove]

First thing I tried. Nothing there.

[andfoy]

How did you installed the plugin?

[andfoy]

Is the plugin visible? Sometimes the plugin might be not be shown because its visibility is disabled

[avylove]

It wasn't visible or on the panes menu. I just realized I was using your fork instead of the master branch. Trying with the master branch now and having issues with bower not being in the path. Installing with pip. Added --no-deps because it was failing with the Spyder version. Spyder isn't installed, just launching with bootstap script.

pip3 install --user --no-deps git+https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-terminal.git

Is there a better way to go about this?

[andfoy]

Well, to install bower, you just need to execute:

npm install -g bower

[andfoy]

I would prefer to emit the following commands:

# From spyder master branch
python setup.py install

# From spyder-terminal master branch
pip install -U .

[avylove]

Well I don't install things globally that aren't in rpms, but I did run:

npm install bower

Then I added ~/node_modules/.bin to my PATH. It installed and everything looks fine with spyder-terminal@master and spyder@3.x.

[andfoy]

@avylove Great to hear that is working!

[andfoy]

Release v0.2 of spyder-terminal will come on the following days