Add support for `history -c` to clear terminal command history
- [x] Explore repository structure and understand terminal implementation
- [x] Add custom
historycommand handler in Swift (TerminalInstance.swift) - [x] Connect Swift handler to JavaScript function to clear history
- [x] Address code review feedback (improve command parsing)
- [x] Add detailed comments and maintain consistency with existing code
- [x] Final code review - no issues found
- [x] Security scan - no vulnerabilities
- [x] Address PR review: Use fallthrough for cleaner code
- [x] Complete task
Summary
Successfully implemented support for history -c command to clear terminal command history. The implementation has been refined based on code review to use fallthrough for better code organization.
Implementation
- Added custom handler in
TerminalInstance.swiftforhistorycommands history -cclears JavaScript-based history in local-echo.js- Other
historycommands usefallthroughto delegate to default case - Includes comprehensive comments and validation
Original prompt
This section details on the original issue you should resolve
<issue_title>Cannot clear history of commands used in terminal</issue_title> <issue_description>In general (shell-based) terminal, running
history -ccan clear all the history of commands used. However, this sentence did not work in terminal of this APP and I did not find any other relevant setups except itemClose Workspace, which seem to be unpractical for ongoing projects.</issue_description>Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)
- Fixes thebaselab/codeapp#1266
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Updated to use fallthrough as requested in commit 8ff488f.