Bug 81461 - [console] needs key to clear
Summary: [console] needs key to clear
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Debug (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.17 M1   Edit
Assignee: Paul Pazderski CLA
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Keywords: bugday
: 533460 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 560229
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Reported: 2004-12-16 15:30 EST by Tom Roche CLA
Modified: 2020-11-26 04:47 EST (History)
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Description Tom Roche CLA 2004-12-16 15:30:00 EST 
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Tom Roche Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:52:32 -0500
>> Is there a keychord that performs the same action as clicking the
>> little eraser on the Console view?

Kevin Barnes <krbarnes@ca.ibm.com> Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:32:14 -0600
> the clear console is not mapped to any key binding. I'd recommend
> that you file a bug against Platform-Debug.
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2004-12-17 12:20:56 EST 
Suggest to add command with no key-binding. Users can assign a binding as 
desired. (I don't know of a standard "clear" key).
Comment 2 Darin Wright CLA 2005-03-29 11:51:03 EST 
Deferred
Comment 3 Curtis Windatt CLA 2008-04-21 15:22:49 EDT 
Reopening to mark as bugday
Comment 4 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-05-18 03:58:23 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/163168
Comment 5 Paul Pazderski CLA 2020-05-24 07:32:31 EDT 
*** Bug 533460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Paul Pazderski CLA 2020-06-30 11:53:52 EDT 
(In reply to Darin Wright from comment #1)
> I don't know of a standard "clear" key

Command was added without default binding but the common key I know from consoles is Ctrl+L.
Comment 8 Paul Pazderski CLA 2020-07-08 11:52:48 EDT 
Verified in Eclipse SDK

Version: 2020-09 (4.17)
Build id: I20200708-0600


And one correction to my last comment. I actually merged the variant with binding so Ctrl+L in console view now clears the console.
Comment 9 Sarika Sinha CLA 2020-08-20 06:49:19 EDT 
Reopened because of Bug 566192.

@Paul, Will you be fixing this for RC1 ? 
Else please move to 4.18.
Comment 10 Sarika Sinha CLA 2020-11-17 00:22:08 EST 
@Paul,
Will you be taking this up for 4.18 ?
Comment 11 Sarika Sinha CLA 2020-11-26 02:27:38 EST 
@Paul!
What is the plan for this bug? Please re target it accordingly.
Comment 12 Paul Pazderski CLA 2020-11-26 04:47:04 EST 
I would leave it as it is. The main request, "need key to clear", is fulfilled. Working, just without a default binding.

For the problem in bug 566192 I'm not even sure if the root cause is in Debug or UI.