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27.0.50; [feature request] add command to ERC to erase scrollback text

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jonathan Kyle Mitchell <kyle <at> jonathanmitchell.org>
Cc: 31743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31743: 27.0.50; [feature request] add command to ERC to erase scrollback text
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:15:45 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> A recent discussion[1] in help-gnu-emacs revealed that a user
>> expected ERC's /CLEAR command (i.e. erc-cmd-CLEAR) to erase the buffer
>> contents instead of just recentering the display.

[...]

> I think 1) makes more sense, because C-l is pretty easily available,
> while deleting the buffer contents is a bit more work (since it has
> read-only text).
>
> But on the other hand...  I can't really imagine anybody using /clear
> now, but perhaps this would be too surprising a change?

The doc string on the function says "Clear the window content", so I
think recentering is an odd thing to do.  So I've now changed it to
delete the buffer contents instead.

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