Erase

Line and screen clearing operations for selective content removal. Erase sequences let applications clear portions of the screen or individual lines, optionally preserving or clearing character attributes. These sequences are heavily used by full-screen TUI applications during redraws.

5 features in this category

Support Matrix

Feature	Ghostty	WezTerm	Alacritty	vt100	xterm.js	Kitty
Erase line (EL 2)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Erase to BOL (EL 1)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Erase to EOL (EL 0)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗
Erase screen (ED 2)	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
Erase below (ED 0)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

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