From 254e853c8a6aad06d4781b0eb0f5a1d2e1919754 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 14:48:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] etc-update: add clear_term config for bug #142508

---
 bin/etc-update      | 7 ++++---
 cnf/etc-update.conf | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/etc-update b/bin/etc-update
index 2369f04f4..42518adc6 100755
--- a/bin/etc-update
+++ b/bin/etc-update
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ sel_file() {
 		elif [ "${DELETE_ALL}" == "yes" ]; then
 			input=0
 		else
-			clear
+			[[ $CLEAR_TERM == yes ]] && clear
 			if [[ ${mode} == 0 ]] ; then
 				echo "The following is the list of files which need updating, each
 configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files."
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ do_cfg() {
 		elif [[ "${DELETE_ALL}" == "yes" ]] && ! user_special "${ofile}"; then
 			my_input=2
 		else
-			clear
+			[[ $CLEAR_TERM == yes ]] && clear
 			if [ "${using_editor}" == 0 ]; then
 				(
 					echo "Showing differences between ${ofile} and ${file}"
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ Please select from the menu above (-1 to exit, losing this merge): "
 				   return 255
 				   ;;
 				2)
-					clear
+					[[ $CLEAR_TERM == yes ]] && clear
 					if [ "${using_editor}" == 0 ]; then
 						(
 							echo "Showing differences between ${ofile} and ${mfile}"
@@ -555,6 +555,7 @@ chown ${UID:-0}:${GID:-0} "${TMP}" || die "failed to set ownership on temp dir"
 #CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=$(/usr/lib/portage/bin/portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK)
 
 # load etc-config's configuration
+CLEAR_TERM=$(get_config clear_term)
 EU_AUTOMERGE=$(get_config eu_automerge)
 rm_opts=$(get_config rm_opts)
 mv_opts=$(get_config mv_opts)
diff --git a/cnf/etc-update.conf b/cnf/etc-update.conf
index 8157c3dc7..6f69dee61 100644
--- a/cnf/etc-update.conf
+++ b/cnf/etc-update.conf
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 # note that you need dev-util/dialog installed
 mode="0"
 
+# Whether to clear the term prior to each display
+clear_term="yes"
+
 # Whether trivial/comment changes should be automerged
 eu_automerge="yes"
 
-- 
2.26.2