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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>  So I think inventing the equivalent of E3 would be wasted
> effort.

It shouldn't be really that hard, my earlier patch removed the
scrollback, and we call always add another command to do that. I have no
problem with writing a patch for the latter.

> I'm not necessarily object, but again: what would be the purpose of
> removing the scrollback? what will that give you?

Privacy? The scrollback might have some sensitive info, so someone might
want it cleared.

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Vibhav Pant
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