How do you clear a console screen?

# kotlin-native

[Eric Womer]

How do you clear a console screen?

[CLOVIS]

Do you mean the standard output? You can print \033c if you're on a UNIX-based OS. I don't think it's possible cross-platform without using a big library that handles all drawing

[Eric Womer]

Illegal escape character \0

[Eric Womer]

system("clear") works but only in an actual terminal, not in the run tab

[ephemient]

\033c is spelled \u001Bc in Kotlin since we don't have octal escapes

[ephemient]

but yes, the proper solution would involve termcap or terminfo on UNIX and Windows-specific APIs on Windows

[mbonnin]

If you end up doing it, it'd be a nice pull request for https://github.com/ajalt/mordant

[ephemient]

also https://github.com/gradle/native-platform already has support for clear-to-end-of-line; clear-screen would be an easy addition