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Bug 550885 - Ctrl-L irrevocably clears my conversation window
Ctrl-L irrevocably clears my conversation window
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 563004 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-04 17:59 UTC by Will Thompson
Modified: 2016-07-22 02:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Will Thompson 2008-09-04 17:59:41 UTC 
From time to time, I accidentally hit Ctrl-L, which clears my scrollback.  This is kind of annoying, since there's no way to get it back.  I can close and reopen the conversation window, but that only gives me a single page of scrollback.

Ideally, Empathy would behave similarly to the terminal: Ctrl-L blanks the current window, but you can still scroll up to see the old stuff.  Failing that, an undo mechanism would suffice.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2008-09-04 20:27:15 UTC 
Make sense.
Comment 2 Frederic Peters 2008-09-06 14:52:23 UTC 
Actually is that "clear window" command useful at all?
Comment 3 Dafydd Harries 2008-09-06 14:57:29 UTC 
I don't think it's useful at all.
Comment 4 Will Thompson 2008-09-06 15:07:49 UTC 
I think the use case is "talking about buying someone a birthday present and they suddenly appear at your shoulder", or more lurid variations thereof.
Comment 5 Dafydd Harries 2008-09-06 15:50:20 UTC 
I don't that this is the way to meet that use case.

1) You can just close the tab. If you reopen the conversation later, the history will be there.

2) An empty window will look suspicious.

3) New messages that you might not want visible can appear in that window anyway.
Comment 6 Jonny Lamb 2008-09-06 16:14:23 UTC 
I think this feature is fairly useful. The only use case I have actually used it in though is this: I want to show Daf a problem in Empathy and to make things simple and clear I blank the history to show exactly where the conversation started.

I personally don't think this is a bug, but Will's suggestion of mimicking the terminal is neat.
Comment 7 Frederic Peters 2008-12-26 13:35:08 UTC 
*** Bug 563004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Michael Catanzaro 2016-07-22 02:11:16 UTC 
Let's handle this in bug #709811.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 709811 ***