Fwiw parent comment currently says exaggerative, not aggressive.
Why wouldn't you use "clear" for that, or Ctrl+L? "reset" does a lot more, you use it when you've accidentally written a binary to your terminal and triggered a bunch of terminal modes.
I guess clear wouldn't clear the scroll buffer, is that the main reason?
I think that's a libvte pecularity (used among others by the Gnome and XFCE terminal emulators), which upon entering <clear> (or pressing CTRL+L) just scrolls up until the screen seems to be empty. Make sure you set terminfo correctly, ie. E3=ED3, so that it clears the text and scroll buffer.
On any non-libvte using terminal emulator, eg. xterm, you can use CTRL+L to clear the text area and ALT+CTRL+L to clear the text area and the scroll buffer.
Why wouldn't you use "clear" for that, or Ctrl+L? "reset" does a lot more, you use it when you've accidentally written a binary to your terminal and triggered a bunch of terminal modes.
I guess clear wouldn't clear the scroll buffer, is that the main reason?