I am using bash and mintty. Ctrl-L does not clear the screen like it should:
0920:~$ ^L
-bash: $'\f': command not found
I get the same error if I've ssh-ed into a linux box via my cygwin mintty.
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2Stackoverflow is for help developing software. You should consider asking this on http://unix.stackexchange.com/ or http://superuser.com/. – Kenster Oct 08 '15 at 16:34
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When this happens what does `bind -q clear-screen` output? – Etan Reisner Oct 08 '15 at 16:52
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`clear-screen is not bound to any keys.` is the output – PortMan Oct 08 '15 at 16:57
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I use ctrl-l to clear the screen all the time in Mintty & cygwin. It's not a cygwin issue. – AlG Oct 08 '15 at 19:11
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Sounds like an issue with your readline mappings in /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc. try adding this:
"\C-l": clear-screen
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