xfce4-terminal -- clear scroll back only?

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Andrew Robinson
<andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>>> I have noticed that a feature that I used all the time in konsole is
>>> missing in gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal, that of clear scroll
>>> back & reset. Unlike the clear & reset, clear scroll back and reset
>>> removes all the previous content, removes the scroll back history, but
>>> leaves the current prompt intact. The clear & reset in xfce4-terminal
>>> clears the entire terminal including the current prompt & command,
>>> leaving a black screen and the user completely unaware what the
>>> current command is anymore.
>>>
>>> Any chance that I missed a way to do this and if not, any chance of an
>>> enhancement?
[...]
>
> I wasn't referring to the bash history, but the terminal scroll-back buffer

Both gnome-terminal and Terminal rely on the same widget, vte, so I
guess the feature should be added in the terminal widget first.

    http://library.gnome.org/devel/vte/unstable/VteTerminal.html#vte-terminal-reset

Cheers,
Olivier.