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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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Reset to default
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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?
    – user2195
    Aug 14, 2011 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, 2011 at 8:03
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Old question, but as of today, comint-clear-buffer (C-c M-o) clears the buffer.

This function should also work for all comint-based buffers (Shell-mode, SQLi-mode, etc...).

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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, 2011 at 17:04
  • it does the job!
    – 0x0584
    Sep 20, 2020 at 14:52
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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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I'm on Hadoop 2.5 and HBase 0.95. You can use system("clear") on hbase shell

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