Open AlexChalk opened 3 years ago
Hmm, the use case you're describing isn't exactly supported by the current commands, unfortunately. VtrClearSequence
is intended to be a key sequence, e.g. Ctrl-l
that can be sent to the shell session within a tmux pane, rather than tmux
itself. clear-history
is a tmux command, so they're operating at a different level.
To support your use case, I think we'd need to add a new VtrClearRunnerHistory
command which under the hood executes tmux clear-history -t <runner-pane>
. I'd welcome a PR that implements that if you're interested in poking around, but likely won't have time to tackle in the near term.
Hope that helps, or at least clarifies!
It does, thanks! I'll see how busy I am ;)
Hi,
I'm trying to use the
VtrClearSequence
value to issue atmux clear-history
command to my attached pane before sending a command, and it seems like a reasonable use case for a clear command. I want to be able to e.g. run tests and search my buffer for errors without finding results from my previous test run.I checked the source code, and it seems like the clear sequence is used something like this:
!tmux send-keys -t ~pane#~ ~clear-sequence~ ~main-command~
. The problem is that executingclear-history
like this, e.g.!tmux send-keys -t 1 "tmux clear-history" Enter
, well, doesn't clear the history of the pane!I guess there's something going on with how this command is executed that I don't understand; maybe
clear-history
doesn't understand the context in which it's been executed when it's run viasend-keys
? Do you have any ideas about what might be going on?Thanks for any help you can provide!