GNU screen: how to clear scrollback and screen at once

Question

I'm looking for a way to clear both the scrollback and the visible screen at once in GNU screen. At the moment I use two separate bindings:

• C-a, C (which is the default one for clearing the visible text)
• bind _ eval "scrollback 0" "scrollback 15000" (which clears the scrollback)

Can someone point me to how I can do both in one?

Answer 1

Turns out you can just do:

  bind _ eval "clear" "scrollback 0" "scrollback 15000"

Note that the order seems to matter: it doesn't seem to work every time if you have the "clear" at the end (it always clears the screen, but not always the scrollback).