Edit > Clear does nothing

[Dana Olson]

Selecting Edit > Clear does not clear the channel buffer (equivalent to pressing CTRL+L), nor does it clear the text input box. If it has a function, it is clearly not visible.

I assigned CTRL+L to this menu option (I have the global GNOME option enabled to change accelerators), and then CTRL+L stopped functioning properly as well, even after clearing the accelerator.

Version installed: 0.10-0ubuntu2

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

I have no problem with this feature.

Could you test it with a fresh user please ?

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

I can reproduce this too, however I'm using a custom profile inherited from xchat2. I'll try with a fresh profile.

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

I just tested again, and I found that "Discussion > Clear Window" which is mapped to CTRL+L will clear the chat buffer.

I have no idea what the non-functional, non-mapped "Edit > Clear" option is supposed to do, but apparently it does nothing here.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

I have no idea either but it was removed not so long ago in the svn anyway... It might be a good idea to remove it from the 0.10 in dapper if there won't be any 0.11 soon enough to be included in dapper.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Yep, we removed it in SVN because it's not very useful, easy to use accidentally and still available with /clear.

x-g 0.11 will not be included in Dapper but maybe it's a good idea to backport this change to the 0.10.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Backport from HEAD

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 xchat-gnome (0.11-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
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   * New upstream version, UVF exception by mdz (Ubuntu: #38519):
     - Show whois info in a tooltip on the userlist (Ubuntu: #34715)
     - Add a preferences page for controlling spell-checking (enabling it,
       selecting languages) (Ubuntu: #35659)
     - As usual, numerous bug fixes and minor improvements
     - Drop confusing Edit,Clear option (Ubuntu: #34858)
     - Fix userlist placement (Ubuntu: #32132)
     - Fix "You're not on that channel" message (Ubuntu: #32309)
     - Fix color palette (Ubuntu: #35658)
   * debian/control:
     - updated the libsexy requirement according to configure
   * debian/patches/04_fix_copy.patch:
     - backport of CVS patch to fix copy using ctrl-C on a chan