profanity-clear(1)

profanity-clear1

Usage

/clear

/clear persist_history <on|off>

Overview

Clear the current window. If you set persist_history you can still access the history by pressing PAGE UP.

Arguments

persist_history on|off

Whether or not to clear the screen persistently.

Examples

/clear

/clear persist_history

/clear persist_history on

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From profanity 1:0.19.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by profanity-gtk. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.