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I cannot using the command "clear" to clear the screen in emacs shell mode as I can in the linux terminal. So how can I do it?

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Shell mode is not a terminal emulator, the way that M-x term is, so "clear" does not have meaning there.

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What's the difference between term and shell in emacs? – Kim Aug 14 '11 at 6:59
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term is a full blown terminal emulator think of it as xterm running in emacs where as shell is just a basic pipe to bash. – Hamza Yerlikaya Aug 14 '11 at 8:03
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Read my comment to John Wiegley, unless you use term clear won't work you can however just to C-x-h which will select all text in buffer and hit delete.

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I use M-x erase-buffer to clean up a huge shell buffer. – Juancho Aug 14 '11 at 17:04
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you can use C-L, it actually does not clear the screen, but moves the whole screen to up, and that make it look like you really cleared the screen

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