I want the active prompt to stay at the top, with the most recent command and its output underneath and older commands farther down. Is there a way to configure a terminal or PowerShell to do that?
Can I keep the terminal prompt at the top with output below it?
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That layout is probably best handled by the terminal emulator rather than a PowerShell prompt setting. A conventional terminal displays output as a stream, so keeping the input fixed while rearranging completed commands and their output would need a different interface.
You could check whether your terminal has a feature request for it, or suggest one. I don't know of a terminal that already provides this exact layout.
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You can get partway there in PowerShell. Get-History gives you the command history, and a custom prompt function in your profile could display that history in the order you want whenever a new prompt appears.
That won't automatically put each command's output into a reversed display, though. It would be a history display alongside the normal output stream, which could get confusing pretty quickly.
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If the real goal is just to see recent commands, a running command history may be enough without changing the whole console layout. It won't give you the matching output under each command, but it's a much smaller change than building a custom interface.
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Right, command history and captured output are different things. Reordering one doesn't rearrange the other.