I've been looking for a way to use Ctrl-L to clear the monitor instead of typing clear in each time. I found nothing except a patch which didn't work for me. How do I add hotkeys/shortcuts to my OpenBSD box (which uses ksh as a shell)?
[*] OpenBSD's ksh.kshrc
[*] Ctrl-l in hex = 0xc :
# read key ; echo -n $key > file.txt ; hexdump file.txt ^L 0000000 000c 0000001 #
According to the OpenBSD ksh man page, Ctrl+L is bound to redraw.
redraw: ^L Reprints the prompt string and the current input line.
If that isn't sufficient, I can't see any editing command that will help, so I would suggest learning more about bind -m.
Perhaps you can do something like bind -m '^L'=clear'^J' to make it type clear Enter.
bind -m '^L'=clear'^J' on OpenBSD 4.9 and it works.
You should be able to add an alias to your .kshrc to do this. Try
alias "^L"=clear
Where ^L is the single char Ctrl-L. You might not need the quoting, if it still doesn't work the last resort would be to escape it like (what you are typing, not what will be visible in your file) Ctrl-VCtrl-L→clear.
IHTH
