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In bash, I can clear the screen with the clear command and I can clear the whole "buffer" with the reset command.

I'm looking to accomplish the reset in Emacs *shell* terminal. Is there a command / keyboard binding for this?

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Reset to default
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Answering my own question. Found the answer on this site:

(defun clear-shell ()
   (interactive)
  (let ((old-max comint-buffer-maximum-size))
    (setq comint-buffer-maximum-size 0)
    (comint-truncate-buffer)
    (setq comint-buffer-maximum-size old-max)))

Then I also added a key-binding:

(global-set-key "\C-f" 'clear-shell)
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  • I bind C-x h to 'mark-whole-buffer (which works in any mode/buffer) then just use C-w to kill the region. The above global-set-key will rebind C-f in all modes, not just your shell, which will hide the default C-f forward-char binding.
    – djb
    Oct 6, 2017 at 20:23

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