[hnlmorg]

I think you're conflating SHELL with TERM because the OS has nothing to do with what hot keys your terminal emulator supports (the OS wouldn't dictate hot keys available for shells either, but popular Linux distros don't tend to default to Zsh like macOS does).

A terminal emulator is the software application you use to bring the command prompt up. So a terminal emulator is operating system agnostic.

Granted there are some macOS only terms out there like iTerm2 and Apples own Terminal. Just as there are terminals that haven't (as far as I'm aware) been ported to macOS, like xterm. But there's plenty of cross platform terminal emulators too, in fact most are cross platform.

[IshKebab]

I'm not conflating anything. On Mac you can press Ctrl-K in any terminal emulator and it will clear the terminal and scrollback. On Linux no terminal emulators support this (except Kitty it turns out - as mentioned in the other comment).

Sadly Kitty is very bare-bones. Not really for me. And I can't choose to use Kitty in VSCode.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Konsole supports Ctrl+Shift+K by default, and you can change the keybinds. Don't confuse Gnome with Linux.

[mbork_pl]

> Sadly Kitty is very bare-bones.

Care to elaborate? I had an impression that it's a pretty complete piece of software. I've been driving it daily for more than 1½ years, and I'm pretty happy with it.

[IshKebab]

Well the first two things I tried that are present in pretty much all software - scroll bar and Ctrl-F to find, did not exist. There's no menu bar at all in fact.

[mbork_pl]

> scroll bar

I didn't even realize, I don't see a need for it anyway.

> Ctrl-F to find, did not exist

That's because Kitty has something much better:

> Sometimes you need to explore the scrollback buffer in more detail, maybe search for some text or refer to it side-by-side while typing in a follow-up command. kitty allows you to do this by pressing the ctrl+shift+h shortcut, which will open the scrollback buffer in your favorite pager program (which is less by default).

> There's no menu bar at all in fact.

Which is a big plus. Emacs has a menu bar (and a toolbar), and I obviously turn them off, because they take up screen real estate.

[IshKebab]

> ctrl-shift-h

Ah yes, the logical shortcut for "find" (enormous face palm).

Why do so many open source devs find sane UX so hard? It's a bit weird.

(And yes I know it isn't exactly the same as "find" - it that is your instinctive response then you're misunderstanding how UX works.)

[aumerle]

That shortcut opens HISTORY, hence it is ctrl+shift+H. And if the terminal emulator used up ctrl+f to implement find, it would mean that no terminal program could use ctrl+f to implement find. Maybe next time before you try to imply other people dont know UX, pause, and consider if you know what you are talking about. Incidentally, using the term UX itself, generally is a good signal that the person that is using it doesnt have a clue what they are talking about.

[hnlmorg]

> I'm not conflating anything.

I said most terminal emulators are cross platform and that hot key isn't an OS dependant thing. You then reply with:

> On Mac you can press Ctrl-K in any terminal emulator ... > On Linux no terminal emulators support this

which not only contradicts what I said, it also misunderstands how terminal emulators work

> and I can't choose to use Kitty in VSCode.

So the issue is VSCode doesn't support ctrl+k? that's very different to the statement you opened with

[AlpineG]

alacritty supports scrollback clearing