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Curious
Curious

Reputation: 21510

Tmux clear history in bash vi mode

I just recently switched to using bash vi mode with set -o vi setting in my .bash_profile. But this leads a problem

I had a tmux mapping that would run the clear-history command when I pressed <ctrl>+k. This was the relevant mapping 

bind -n C-k clear-history

This does not work in bash vi mode, probably because vi mode takes precedence. How do I resolve or work around this issue?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 934

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172510

From this question, I have the following tmux mapping:

bind-key -n C-k send-keys -R \; send-keys Escape C-l a \; clear-history

There are many variants of this (each with pros and cons, and for different use cases); see the linked question.

Upvotes: 0

nbari
nbari

Reputation: 26905

You could change the key, this is what I use:

# reset & clear history
bind r send-keys -R \; send-keys C-l \; clear-history

You have to press ctrl+b+r

k can indeed be used but if you also move across panels (ctrl + hkjl), it may become confusing.

In any case this work by just using ctrl+k

bind -n C-k send-keys C-l \; run-shell "sleep .3s; tmux clear-history"

Without using the sleep:

bind -n C-k send-keys -R \; send-keys C-l \; clear-history

Upvotes: 2

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