[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61000] clc command does not totally clean the command window. The history can still be traversed using the scroll bar.

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #61000 (project octave):

This comment is for CLI not GUI.

For all the years I've used octave, I've usually used the terminal window's
"clear and reset" function if I want to eliminate the history. Octave's clc is
similar to bash's clear, and neither will remove past commands from history.
There isn't a command for that as far as I know because command history is the
responsibility of the terminal not the program sending things to the
terminal.

I would argue that retaining that behavior is better than combining the two
behaviors into clc. Sometimes I only want to clear the screen but not reset
history, and sometimes I want to do both.

When Matlab is invoked in CLI mode (e.g. running Matlab server-side through a
shell instead of locally) it behaves the same, not clearing command history.

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